interesting discovery on 2001 VIN numbers.....

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01/01/2010, 01:16 PM
VX KAT

interesting discovery on 2001 VIN numbers.....

Made a totally useless discovery today....we have 3 sequential VIN numbers for the 2001 model year here..... :wave:
mrtew......0662....Proton
VX KAT.....0663....Foxfire
VX crazy...0664....Kaiser

mrtew discovered that he and I were sequential a while back, but I just noticed Lisa was today......wonder if we have any other 3-somes....or more:?: (ok, no comments! :laugho:...OK, let's call them triads...or maybe trifectas!)

With these being partially "hand made" I wonder how they did the painting of different colors sequentially ??:_thinking Multiple paint booths perhaps, so line could keep going and multiple workers could receive a different color VX to continue work? IIRC, we're also all 3 having very good "luck" with reliability, yeah?

Think somebody posted a video on how these were made...think it had some assembly line type video footage...have to look that up again...Anybody have it handy?

Like I said, useless but interesting...:yeso:
01/01/2010, 01:47 PM
deermagnet

DeafVX....0661....'01 Kaiser Silver.....last post here in '04

NYScott...0665....'01 Ebony....sold in '09

Mark
01/01/2010, 03:12 PM
VX crazy

Quote:

Originally Posted by VX KAT

Made a totally useless discovery today....we have 3 sequential VIN numbers for the 2001 model year here..... :wave:
mrtew......0662....Proton
VX KAT.....0663....Foxfire
VX crazy...0664....Kaiser

mrtew discovered that he and I were sequential a while back, but I just noticed Lisa was today......wonder if we have any other 3-somes....or more:?: (ok, no comments! :laugho:...OK, let's call them triads...or maybe trifectas!)

With these being partially "hand made" I wonder how they did the painting of different colors sequentially ??:_thinking Multiple paint booths perhaps, so line could keep going and multiple workers could receive a different color VX to continue work? IIRC, we're also all 3 having very good "luck" with reliability, yeah?

Think somebody posted a video on how these were made...think it had some assembly line type video footage...have to look that up again...Anybody have it handy?

Like I said, useless but interesting...:yeso:

Wow Sue, great discovery! mrtew needs to come to Moab, I am bringing the tripod for photos of the 'triad', ROFL...I love it! How did you find this out? I still liked my original wayy better but thats because she was virgin to me!
01/01/2010, 08:45 PM
rickshaw

Quote:

Originally Posted by VX KAT

Think somebody posted a video on how these were made...think it had some assembly line type video footage...have to look that up again...Anybody have it handy?

Here is some assembly line video footage. It's about 6 minutes into Part 1.

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
01/02/2010, 06:50 AM
johnnyapollo

Just a guess - but I would think the VIN is applied as a step close to the end of the line - which means all the painting and most of the assembly is already completed. Either that or some numbers for critical parts (provided there are matching numbers for VIN - not sure about the VX but I know some other manufacturers do so) are applied early and then brought together towards the end during assembly. Since there's a handmade aspect I doubt that they worried too much about any sequence, but rather towards total production numbers as a per-day, per-week or per-month datum.

-- John
01/02/2010, 12:31 PM
VX KAT

Quote:

Originally Posted by deermagnet

NYScott...0665....'01 Ebony....sold in '09

Mark

Hey look, how weird, I stumbled on #0665 for sale in NY on autotrader.com...ONLY 28,975 MILES!!
http://www.autotrader.com/fyc/vdp.js...e&rdpage=thumb
01/03/2010, 10:41 AM
handeeman

I did notice that T4B's 2000 proton (0776) came exactly 200 units after my Kaiser (0576). Musta run out of Kaiser paint.
Plus it's all clear to me now:
Ldub's 99 = 1872
Handeeman's 00 = 0576
Tom4Bren's 00= 0776
Seeing it all layed out like that...it's just so obvious.
Wow..that's just too weird !
no wonder we're like the Three Amigos.
Thanks for bring up this thread Kat, I'm sure with a little further study I could find the numerical relationship of all of us.
01/03/2010, 10:52 AM
VX KAT

Quote:

Originally Posted by deermagnet

DeafVX....0661....'01 Kaiser Silver.....last post here in '04

NYScott...0665....'01 Ebony....sold in '09

Mark

Quote:

Originally Posted by handeeman

I did notice that T4B's 2000 proton (0776) came exactly 200 units after my Kaiser (0576). Musta run out of Kaiser paint.
Plus it's all clear to me now:
Ldub's 99 = 1872
Handeeman's 00 = 0576
Tom4Bren's 00= 0776
Seeing it all layed out like that...it's just so obvious.
Wow..that's just too weird !
no wonder we're like the Three Amigos.
Thanks for bring up this thread Kat, I'm sure with a little further study I could find the numerical relationship of all of us.

:goof::disturbed
01/04/2010, 12:59 AM
Ldub

Quote:

Originally Posted by handeeman

I did notice that T4B's 2000 proton (0776) came exactly 200 units after my Kaiser (0576). Musta run out of Kaiser paint.
Plus it's all clear to me now:
Ldub's 99 = 1872
Handeeman's 00 = 0576
Tom4Bren's 00= 0776
Seeing it all layed out like that...it's just so obvious.
Wow..that's just too weird !
no wonder we're like the Three Amigos.
Thanks for bring up this thread Kat, I'm sure with a little further study I could find the numerical relationship of all of us.

Wow Handee...having you around is like being in the same room with Nostradamus or Mike Anglo or something...:yes:

I hope we get to meet face 2 face someday, so I can say I've been in the presence of greatness...:smilewink
01/04/2010, 07:12 AM
tom4bren

Quote:

Originally Posted by handeeman

I did notice that T4B's 2000 proton (0776) came exactly 200 units after my Kaiser (0576). Musta finally got the paint mix right.
Plus it's all clear to me now:
Ldub's 99 = 1872
Handeeman's 00 = 0576
Tom4Bren's 00= 0776
Seeing it all layed out like that...it's just so obvious.
Wow..that's just too weird !
no wonder we're like the Three Amigos.
Thanks for bring up this thread Kat, I'm sure with a little further study I could find the numerical relationship of all of us.

Quote corrected.:)
01/04/2010, 07:31 AM
VX KAT

Quote:

Originally Posted by handeeman

I did notice that T4B's 2000 proton (0776) came exactly 200 units after my Kaiser (0576). Musta run out of Kaiser paint.
Plus it's all clear to me now:
Ldub's 99 = 1872
Handeeman's 00 = 0576
Tom4Bren's 00= 0776

But I thought Zeus was in the middle of the nutz brothers...he said he was the ---- head in the middle didn't he?
01/04/2010, 12:01 PM
circmand

or maybe

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ldub

Wow Handee...having you around is like being in the same room with Nostradamus or Mike Anglo or something...:yes:

I hope we get to meet face 2 face someday, so I can say I've been in the presence of greatness...:smilewink

Cliff Clavin?
01/04/2010, 12:21 PM
handeeman

Quote:

Originally Posted by circmand

Cliff Clavin?

Well, I do wear white socks and I would discribe myself as a "wing nut". So "Cheers" !
01/04/2010, 01:35 PM
handeeman

I do love the symmetry of numbers tho and that is why I often see things others miss. (well I sometimes see things other don't but I don't think that makes me weird or anything).
1 x 1= 1
11 x 11= 121
111 x 111= 12321
1111 x 1111= 1234321
11111 x 11111= 123454321
111111 x 111111= 12345654321
1111111 x 1111111= 1234567654321

11111111 x 11111111= 123456787654321
111111111 x 111111111= 12345678987654321
Just thought some of you would enjoy seeing that.