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How Many 260Z's built in 1973?


Carl Beck

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Anyone in North America have a 260Z built between 11 / 73 and 01 / 74? If so, I would appreciate knowing the VIN and Date Of Manufacture.

Trying to get a statistical sample, or find the Highest VIN RLS30 with a 12/73 build date - either of which could be indicative of the number of RLS30's built in Calendar Year 1973

thanks,

Carl B.

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Hi Carl,

This is interesting as I would have thought the VIN of the RLS30 would commence at 000000, instead it appears it was either 010000 or 012000.

Any observations on this?

Mike

Yes... that would be interesting to know.

Bruce

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Hi Guys:

The VIN's on the 260Z's did start at RLS30 000001.

RLS30 000020 is the 1974 OMS Pace Car, that was awarded to Bobby Unser for wining the USAC California 500 in 1974. The Date Of Manufacture on that car is 07/73. According to the info published by Nissan production of the 260Z's started in 08/73...

What is interesting so far is that the highest VIN we've found for 12/73 is RLS30 016942 and the lowest VIN found for 01/74 is RLS30 021428. So we have a gap there of about 5.5K units...

It seems "possible" that the units produced in 74 used a VIN sequence that was restarted at RLS30 020001 for the production year 1974... but who knows?

Between 01/74 and 08/74 we have VIN's running from 021428 to 045738.. about 24K units - divided by the eight months of production - and that averages about 3K units per month...

All this is based of course on a very small sample of VIN's reported so far.. so we have a long way to go to fill in the gaps...

Thanks for everyone's input so far...

FWIW,

Carl B.

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