you need the whole VIN to determine what year your car was built. Apparently the factory would take cars out of production for one reason or another for a period of time and put them back in after awhile. To check when your car was built look at Chuck Melton's websit at http://www.geocities.com/provamo72/VINDecoder.html
My car is THPNNE06984 which shows a build date of December 1973 but it has been titled as a 1974 since new.
Gary #06984
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