interesting discovery on 2001 VIN numbers.....

[VX KAT]

Made a totally useless discovery today....we have 3 sequential VIN numbers for the 2001 model year here.....
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! ...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 ?? 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...

[deermagnet]

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

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

Mark

[VX crazy]

Made a totally useless discovery today....we have 3 sequential VIN numbers for the 2001 model year here.....
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! ...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 ?? 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...

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!

[rickshaw]

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

[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

[VX KAT]

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

[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.

[VX KAT]

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

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

Mark

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.

[Ldub]

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...

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

[tom4bren]

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.

[VX KAT]

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?

[circmand]

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

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

Cliff Clavin?

[handeeman]

Cliff Clavin?

Well, I do wear white socks and I would discribe myself as a "wing nut". So "Cheers" !

[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.