@Mike A posted:Now I am curiaous, my serial number is 9421. My car is a 1987 and I know of a 1985 GT5S with the serial number 9426. Any one know how this can be? The 9426 is a black car and mine is a red car. If anyone can explain this, it might be interesting to hear.
Mike
Hi Mike:
Bill van Ess lists 9421 as a 1987 Amerisport. However, Claude Dubois lists your car as a cancelled sale in 1985. Looking at the registry, your car's VIN is within the 1985 range, not the 1987. I am speculating, but the reason for this could be that, being a cancelled sale initially, the factory could have just sat on it and then eventually sent it to Kirk Evans for Amerisport. Amerisport may have sold it as a 1987 when it would technically and for the purpose of import rules have been built by them. In short, the VIN is more an indicator of build year at the factory rather than the model year.
Just as an example, I have confirmation from the factory that my car was a 1988 build but sold by the factory as a 1989 model.
This kind of confusion is particularly acute in Europe, where cars are registered based neither on the build year nor on the model year, but rather by the year they were first registered.
Peter