64 olds 98 id info
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64 olds 98 id info
g'day all
i have been trying to find info /links to work out my olds with bugger all luck ...so i turn to the olds gods ..for help
my id tag is
8841m296988
ok so wots it all mean ??? i have been told not to many of these cars are around?? how many built??
any help advice would be great mate!!!
gino
i have been trying to find info /links to work out my olds with bugger all luck ...so i turn to the olds gods ..for help
my id tag is
8841m296988
ok so wots it all mean ??? i have been told not to many of these cars are around?? how many built??
any help advice would be great mate!!!
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You need to give us a picture of the body tag. It will tell a lot more about your car.
What you have posted is the VIN (Vehicle Identification Number). What I can tell from it is that, assuming those numbers are correct, your car was manufactured at the Lansing, MI plant and was the 286,998th Olds manufactured that year.
Info available to me indicates Olds made approximately 25,000 98 models in 1964. Total production of all Oldsmobile cars in 1964 was 546,112.
What you have posted is the VIN (Vehicle Identification Number). What I can tell from it is that, assuming those numbers are correct, your car was manufactured at the Lansing, MI plant and was the 286,998th Olds manufactured that year.
Info available to me indicates Olds made approximately 25,000 98 models in 1964. Total production of all Oldsmobile cars in 1964 was 546,112.
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8841m296988
8= 8 cyl engine
8= Ninety Eight
4= 1964 model year
1? not usually seen in a 1964 VIN, no idea what it is
M= Lansing MI assembly (all 1964 Ninety Eight were built in Lansing)
296988= car sequential serial number
8= 8 cyl engine
8= Ninety Eight
4= 1964 model year
1? not usually seen in a 1964 VIN, no idea what it is
M= Lansing MI assembly (all 1964 Ninety Eight were built in Lansing)
296988= car sequential serial number
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Not quite correct, I don't think. It would be the 286,998th built at that particular plant, not for Olds overall.
Each plant, and Olds built cars at six plants in 1964, started its VIN numbers at 001001, according to the '64 chassis service manual. This also means that you have to subtract 1,000 from the number to get the actual sequence number.
So this car would have been 286,998-1,000 = 285,998th Olds built at that plant that year. Not a big difference, but that's apparently the way it worked.
Each plant, and Olds built cars at six plants in 1964, started its VIN numbers at 001001, according to the '64 chassis service manual. This also means that you have to subtract 1,000 from the number to get the actual sequence number.
So this car would have been 286,998-1,000 = 285,998th Olds built at that plant that year. Not a big difference, but that's apparently the way it worked.
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Exactly which 98 do you have? 1964 Olds 98's came in six different styles.
Town Sedan: 11,380
Holiday Sports Coupe: 6,139
Holiday Sports Sedan: 24,791
Luxury Sedan: 17,346
Custom Sports Coupe: 4,594
Convertible: 4,004
Add them up, and you get 68,254. Figure on a 1% survival rate, and there's maybe 600 or 700 Olds 98s still around today. Just a rough guess.
Edit: I just noticed that your car cannot be the Custom Sports Coupe. That style got its own VIN second digit, so your VIN would start out 894 instead of 884.
Post a photo of the body cowl tag, which is on the firewall on the driver's side under the hood. That can be decoded to tell you a bit more about the car.
Town Sedan: 11,380
Holiday Sports Coupe: 6,139
Holiday Sports Sedan: 24,791
Luxury Sedan: 17,346
Custom Sports Coupe: 4,594
Convertible: 4,004
Add them up, and you get 68,254. Figure on a 1% survival rate, and there's maybe 600 or 700 Olds 98s still around today. Just a rough guess.
Edit: I just noticed that your car cannot be the Custom Sports Coupe. That style got its own VIN second digit, so your VIN would start out 894 instead of 884.
Post a photo of the body cowl tag, which is on the firewall on the driver's side under the hood. That can be decoded to tell you a bit more about the car.
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Not quite correct, I don't think. It would be the 286,998th built at that particular plant, not for Olds overall.
Each plant, and Olds built cars at six plants in 1964, started its VIN numbers at 001001, according to the '64 chassis service manual. This also means that you have to subtract 1,000 from the number to get the actual sequence number.
So this car would have been 286,998-1,000 = 285,998th Olds built at that plant that year. Not a big difference, but that's apparently the way it worked.
Each plant, and Olds built cars at six plants in 1964, started its VIN numbers at 001001, according to the '64 chassis service manual. This also means that you have to subtract 1,000 from the number to get the actual sequence number.
So this car would have been 286,998-1,000 = 285,998th Olds built at that plant that year. Not a big difference, but that's apparently the way it worked.
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This is gives us a bit more info, but what you REALLY should do is post an actual photo of the tag that you copied these numbers off of. My guess is that there are additional codes on there as well.
For example, there should be a letter-number combination that gives the month and week the car was assembled. It would look something like "05D" or "02A" or "10B" or something like that. The first two digits are the month and the letter refers to the week of the month. So, for example, 05D means 5th month (May), fourth week (D).
The "R-R" is likely a paint color code where the first letter gives the color of the lower part of the body while the second gives the color of the roof. I don't know what color R refers to (someone else on here certainly will), but the fact that the two codes are the same at least tells you that the car was originally all one color as the top and bottom have the same codes.
The "style" number, 64 3839, tells you the year, 1964, which you already knew, and exactly which model of 98 you have. As I said earlier, there were five versions of the 98 in the 3800 series plus one version, the Custom Sports Coupe, that was the only model in the 3900 series.
3839 tells us that yours is a 98 Holiday Sports Sedan, which is a four-door hardtop model, and, as the production figures I posted earlier show, was the most-produced version of the 98 in 1964.
The body number doesn't tell you anything as it was just a sequence number applied at the plant where the car was assembled. The "LA" tells you Lansing assembly plant, but you already knew that from the car's VIN.
For example, there should be a letter-number combination that gives the month and week the car was assembled. It would look something like "05D" or "02A" or "10B" or something like that. The first two digits are the month and the letter refers to the week of the month. So, for example, 05D means 5th month (May), fourth week (D).
The "R-R" is likely a paint color code where the first letter gives the color of the lower part of the body while the second gives the color of the roof. I don't know what color R refers to (someone else on here certainly will), but the fact that the two codes are the same at least tells you that the car was originally all one color as the top and bottom have the same codes.
The "style" number, 64 3839, tells you the year, 1964, which you already knew, and exactly which model of 98 you have. As I said earlier, there were five versions of the 98 in the 3800 series plus one version, the Custom Sports Coupe, that was the only model in the 3900 series.
3839 tells us that yours is a 98 Holiday Sports Sedan, which is a four-door hardtop model, and, as the production figures I posted earlier show, was the most-produced version of the 98 in 1964.
The body number doesn't tell you anything as it was just a sequence number applied at the plant where the car was assembled. The "LA" tells you Lansing assembly plant, but you already knew that from the car's VIN.
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