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Old Apr 17, 2024 | 09:06 AM
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How can I find vehicle description via VIN# ?

I just bought a 1964 Oldsmobile 98 with VIN # 884M043673 on the Title paperwork but the VIN # tag is not attached to the inside of the driver's door. Is it possible for me to decode the VIN above and determine the body type and the color of the car?
Old Apr 17, 2024 | 09:26 AM
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How can I find vehicle description via VIN# ?

I just bought a 1964 Oldsmobile 98 with VIN # 884M043673 on the Title paperwork but the VIN # tag is not attached to the inside of the driver's door. Is it possible for me to decode the VIN above and determine the body type and the color of the car?
Old Apr 17, 2024 | 09:31 AM
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Is it possible for me to decode the VIN above and determine the body type and the color of the car?
No. GM VINs for 1964 didn't tell you much more than you could glean by just looking at the car.

884M043673

8 = 8-cylinder engine
8 = 98 series
4 = model year 1964
M = Lansing assembly plant
043673 = serial/production/sequence number at the Lansing plant.


You can get some of the information you're looking for on the body cowl tag, which should be mounted on the firewall under the hood, either on the driver's or passenger side. If you can find it, take a clear photo of it and post it here. If you post photos of the car itself, we can tell you the body style immediately.
Old Apr 17, 2024 | 09:36 AM
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This is why you do not create three separate threads with the exact same question in three different threads.

How can I find vehicle description via VIN# ?
Old Apr 17, 2024 | 09:36 AM
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Old Apr 17, 2024 | 09:59 AM
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Triple threads, really?

Not only that but you resurrected a thread from 2013.

Let me see if I can fix this. Post a pic of that 64 98, STAT! I need to make sure it's not the one I used to own.
Old Apr 17, 2024 | 10:23 AM
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Thanks

Thanks. Found it.
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