[Allen]

Feel free to ask any questions you'd like. This is a learning process for me too.

On my sheet, that's a story in itself. I can try to read the body number section, but it's practically destroyed and rotted away.

When I bought the car, the third owner had that sheet in with the title. He said he found it under the seat when he pulled the seats to put in new carpet. I looked at it and was pretty excited and asked them to not lose it.

Later when I went to pick up the car, that sheet wasn't in the pile of receipts and paperwork. I asked what happened to it. He said he didn't know.

He asked his wife.... and the wife had earlier crumpled up that "old dirty brown piece of paper" and put it in the trash because she didn't think it was important to anything. She didn't think it belonged with the pile car stuff. [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/shocked.gif[/img]

I had them dig through their trash and find that small wadded up ball.I managed to try to save parts of it, but because she wadded it up, pieces just crumbled away. I made copies of it and can read most - except for the body number and half of the paint code area.

I just got it out again and looked closer. I can't make out a body number. However, found a sliver folded back in the other paint box. Now it looks less like a "4" (I first assumed "14" due to the other paint code and the 14 14 on the body tag), but now it looks more like the tail end of a "B"? What is "B"?

If it followed the logic of the other codes, it would appear to be vinyl roof color code, and makes more sense with the C08 and B80 codes.

The other color box is a "14" for silver, and that matches the body tag. The other interior code "733" also matches the body tag. So, I guess anything is possible. There may have been a mistake on the tag, or there were a pair of Cortez silver super sports made back-to-back with the same interior and the sequencing got mixed on the seats or just grabbed out of order. From a line assembler's perspective, it wouldn't matter as the interior option was the same, and he/she wouldn't care about some tag on the seat. They would just throw the correct back seat in and go with it.

Your thoughts or comments?