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Darrell Davis, Moparphile extraordinaire, has had a long illustrious career involving Mopars that embraced drag racing, collecting, serving in a number of Chrysler high level executive positions and, most notably, for documenting production records and related data on high performance Plymouth and Dodge automobiles—a project that Darrell undertook on his own time and at his own expense and that involved reviewing some 3 million production records on 16mm microfiche film and manually compiling all that info on his laptop. Darrell has published some 16 book with most of that info. We mentioned in the magazine article that Darrell collected fat tire/tank bicycles like the one he had as a kid. So, for all you fat tire/tank bike fans, here are the pix that we didn’t have room to run in the article.
Also included here is the production record (IBM punch card), along with its decoding, for one of the 2 Plymouth Savoy Max Wedge car that Darrell had owned. Lastly, is the full window sticker for the last Plymouth—a Neon– built that Darrell also owns.
1963 Plymouth Savoy Max Wedge Production Record and Decode – Punch Card Decoding COLUMNS 1-8: SHIPPING ORDER NUMBER 0125 2321 COLUMNS 9-10: REGION NUMBER 52 – KANSAS CITY COLUMNS 11-15: DEALER CODE 39828 – SITE BROS. MOTOR, CO, KANSAS CITY, MO COLUMNS 16-18: NOT USED FOR PLYMOUTH COLUMNS 19-21: 311 – SAVOY 2 DOOR SEDAN COLUMNS 22-25: NOT USED FOR PLYMOUTH COLUMNS 26-27: EE – DARK METALLIC BLUE COLUMN 28: 1 – SINGLE TONE PAINT, ALSO COLUMN FOR CONVERTIBLE TOP COLUMNS 29-31: 301 – BLUE CLOTH AND VINYL COLUMNS 32-33: ACCESSORY GROUPS – NO CODES IN THESE COLUMNS COLUMN 34: 342 – TORQUEFLITE TRANSMISSION COLUMN 35: POWER EQUIPMENT – NO CODES IN THIS COLUMN COLUMN 36: RADIOS – NO CODES IN THIS COLUMN COLUMN 37: ANTENNAS – NO CODES IN THIS COLUMN COLUMN 38: AIR CONDITIONING/HEATERS – NO CODES IN THIS COLUMN COLUMN 39: STATION WAGON ITEMS – NO CODES IN THIS COLUMN COLUMN 40: SPARE TIRE COMPARTMENT/LOCKS – NO CODES IN THIS COLUMN COLUMN 41: INTERIOR ITEMS – NO CODES IN THIS COLUMN COLUMN 42: ELECRTICAL ITEMS – NO CODES IN THIS COLUMN COLUMN 43: TINTED GLASS – NO CODES IN THIS COLUMN COLUMN 44: BUMPER GUARDS – NO CODES IN THIS COLUMN COLUMN 45: WHEEL COVERS – NO CODES IN THIS COLUMN COLUMN 46: MOLDINGS – NO CODES IN THIS COLUMN COLUMN 47: MOLDINGS – NO CODES IN THIS COLUMN COLUMN 48: MIRRORS – NO CODES IN THIS COLUMN COLUMN 49: MIRRORS – NO CODES IN THIS COLUMN COLUMN 50: ENGINE & POWER PACKAGES – NO CODES IN THIS COLUMN COLUMN 51: POWER PACKAGE 519 – HIGH COMPRESSION SUPER STOCK COLUMN 52: LOCKING DIFFERENTIAL COLUMN 53: 533 – AXLE RATIO 3.91:1 SURE GRIP DIFFERENTIAL COLUMNS 54-55: 543 AND 550 – TIRES 7.50 X 14 BSW RAYON COLUMN 56: 569 – ALTERNATOR DUAL PULLEY COLUMN 57: 573 – BATTERIES 70 AH COLUMN 58: 582 – SUSPENSION FOR THIS PARTICULAR COMBINATION COLUMN 59: 598 – SWAY BAR – NOT SURE OF THIS MEANING COLUMN 60: 609 – HEAVY DUTY BRAKES – NOT SURE OF THIS MEANING COLUMN 61: UNDERCOATING AND FLEET ITEMS=NO CODES IN THIS COLUMN COLUMN 62: 629 – POWER BUCKET SEATS – NOT SURE OF THIS MEANING COLUMN 63: HEAVY DUTY SEAT SPRINGS – USUALLY FOR FLEET APPLICATION COLUMN 64: 647 – HD FLOOR MATS – LIKELY INTERNAL CODE FOR RUBBER FLOOR MAT COLUMN 65: 654 – NEW CAR SERVICE AND SOLD CAR – LIKELY SOLD CAR COLUMN 66: FLEET, SPECIAL BID – USUALLY FOR FLEET APPLICATION COLUMN 67: 673 – MAKE – PLYMOUTH V-8 – FIRST DIGIT OF VIN COLUMN 68: 681 – LINE MODEL YEAR – SAVOY – SECOND DIGIT OF VIN COLUMN 69: 693 – PLANT NUMBER – 3 MODEL YEAR – 1963 – THIRD DIGIT COLUMN 70: 701 – NO DESCRIPTION – 1 USED FOR LYNCH RD PLANT CODE 1 COLUMNS 71-75: 156775 – SEQUENCE NUMBER AND LAST SIX OF VIN COLUMNS 76-80: 0201 – SHIP DATE FROM PLANT THIS CAR IS PARTICULARLY UNUSUAL AS IT HAS AN SO NUMBER SIMILAR TO THE ALUMINUM EQUIPPED CARS BUT WAS BUILT BEFORE THEY WERE RELEASED.
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