Another bogus tag???

[69rag500]

Came across a car for sale in Edmonton. 1969 coronet rt convertible 4 speed with air. Blue.
Its for sale on Kijiji. I track 69 coronet fender tags for reference and this one dont look right.
For one it has no inspection marks or punch holes and what caught my eye was the build date of March and the VIN starting with 16----- With 16 that should be i think an Oct car.
March should start with maybe around 24------

What do you tag guys think.

I call Bullshit for $200.00 Jack

 

[69Coronetrt]

Bad tag. a/c with a 440 four speed?
Lots of problems with the tag.
315 is not a valid SPD for 69 StL.

My car is 162xxx and has an SPD of early November.

The car was for sale out of FL in 2013.

The car has A/C vents and firewall. It was likely born with an automatic.

 

[Mopars & Missiles]

315 is not a valid SPD for 69 StL.

Could you explain this statement further please?

My R/T is also a StL car, spd 331 and yes, sequence number starts with 24

 

[69Coronetrt]

315 SPD was not used for model year 1969 at the StL plant. Not every day was a scheduled production day.

Whoever made the tag guessed and guessed wrong.

 

[451Mopar]

How much they asking for the car?

 

[Mopars & Missiles]

315 SPD was not used for model year 1969 at the StL plant. Not every day was a scheduled production day.

Whoever made the tag guessed and guessed wrong.

So what you're saying is an SPD was never scheduled by the factory for a weekend day or holiday? Strictly scheduled for normal working days Monday's thru Friday's at most/all plants? Or is this just a St Louis thing?

I can see that would be the logical way they would be scheduled and the SPD's assigned. Wouldn't mean that a car couldn't end up actually being built on a Saturday though (overtime), just that it wasn't policy to expect to build cars on any given Saturday/Sunday/Holiday.

Thanks for your help, its always interesting to learn new things about these cars.

 

[Richard Cranium]

That tag's not just bogus, it's rogus-de-bogus.

 

[69rag500]

They are asking $59,000.00 Canadian. That would be $300.00 bucks U.S funds
Exchange rate is bad right now...

 

[threewood]

SPD?????

If that is the car in the second post, it is nice looking.

 

[PP1RT]

SPD?????

If that is the car in the second post, it is nice looking.

Scheduled production date

 

[NJRR]

They are asking $59,000.00 Canadian. That would be $300.00 bucks U.S funds
Exchange rate is bad right now...

$300.00 bucks? I'll take it. They can keep the tag !!!!

 

[69Coronetrt]

So what you're saying is an SPD was never scheduled by the factory for a weekend day or holiday? Strictly scheduled for normal working days Monday's thru Friday's at most/all plants? Or is this just a St Louis thing?

I can see that would be the logical way they would be scheduled and the SPD's assigned. Wouldn't mean that a car couldn't end up actually being built on a Saturday though (overtime), just that it wasn't policy to expect to build cars on any given Saturday/Sunday/Holiday.

Thanks for your help, its always interesting to learn new things about these cars.

You can find weekend SPDs. I can't speak to what days were actually work days.

I'm just saying that StL didn't schedule cars for 315. The person that guessed didn't do any homework to even try to get a 163xxx VIN close to a realistic SPD and guessed wrong. They also, likely, changed the transmission code. The car does have A/C vents and A/C firewall.

The VIN, if it matches the body numbers, is a legit R/T vert. Someone just paid good money for a bogus tag.

 

[69Coronetrt]

SPD?????

If that is the car in the second post, it is nice looking.

It is a good looking car but bad documentation does taint it. Someone is not being truthful about how the car was actually built. Was there a color change?

 

[69Coronetrt]

They are asking $59,000.00 Canadian. That would be $300.00 bucks U.S funds
Exchange rate is bad right now...

~$46k US

 

[Richard Cranium]

~$46k US

If I were spending that kind of dough, I'd want things to be right with it, and for a car with questionable fender tag to start with, that's a lot.

 

[69Coronetrt]

If I were spending that kind of dough, I'd want things to be right with it, and for a car with questionable fender tag to start with, that's a lot.

For what it is, that's not a "bad" price. Ultimately it's a four speed vert and that's cool.

The tag makes things questionable.

Sometimes no tag is better than a bad tag. In this case, that would probably be true. Just acknowledge someone took out the automatic, installed a four speed "and that's all I know".
Case closed. Move on. A bad tag brings up too many questions you don't want asked.