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Car Forum / Antique and Collectibles / Studebaker / September 2006decode this please
just brought home a new ride. unlike many of you I have room and money for only one at a time, sold the four door daytona and got me a 64 two door hard top daytona, yes I know all about hard top noise and flex. mine does neither at this time, a plus. I have the car on stands now and am checking it all over, the engine block stamp reads vm325. v=259, m =the month and 3 = year and 25 = day.per the shop manuel. I have only ten fingers but m is the 13th month? so is this jan 64? why would that not be v A 4 25? what is this? if it was jan 65 would't it be vm525? I dunno. anybody got a good guess?Rich > just brought home a new ride. unlike many of you I have room and money > for only one at a time, sold the four door daytona and got me a 64 two [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > if it was jan 65 would't it be vm525? > I dunno. anybody got a good guess?Rich Dont have a manual with me today but I believe they skipped "I" because they used the capital I as the number 1 Thus m=December 1963 25th day , a Christmas engine. November 25, 1963... 259 V-8 The letters "I" and "L" were not used in the nubering system >just brought home a new ride. unlike many of you I have room and money >for only one at a time, sold the four door daytona and got me a 64 two [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] >if it was jan 65 would't it be vm525? >I dunno. anybody got a good guess?Rich Lee DeLaBarre Daytona62 Hell, didn't know about the L month being deleted too, you sure ? > November 25, 1963... 259 V-8 > [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > Lee DeLaBarre > Daytona62  SignatureJP/Maryland Studebaker On the Net http://stude.com My Ebay items:http://www.stude.com/EBAY/ 65 Daytona Sports Sedan 64 Daytona HT 63 R2 4 speed GT Hawk (Black) 63 R1 GT Hawk 63 Avanti R1 63 Avanti R2 63 Daytona convert 62 Lark 2 door 60 Hawk 60 Lark Convert 51 Commander Yep , Lee's correct just checked page vi in the 8E parts book, I and L were deleted from the code list. > Hell, didn't know about the L month being deleted too, you sure ? > [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] >> Lee DeLaBarre >> Daytona62 Well poop, one of my most trusted Studebaker books got it wrong. > Yep , Lee's correct just checked page vi in the 8E parts book, > I and L were deleted from the code list. [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] >>> Lee DeLaBarre >>> Daytona62 SignatureJP/Maryland Studebaker On the Net http://stude.com My Ebay items:http://www.stude.com/EBAY/ 65 Daytona Sports Sedan 64 Daytona HT 63 R2 4 speed GT Hawk (Black) 63 R1 GT Hawk 63 Avanti R1 63 Avanti R2 63 Daytona convert 62 Lark 2 door 60 Hawk 60 Lark Convert 51 Commander There is no "I" month, so it's Dec 63 > just brought home a new ride. unlike many of you I have room and money > for only one at a time, sold the four door daytona and got me a 64 two [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > if it was jan 65 would't it be vm525? > I dunno. anybody got a good guess?Rich SignatureJP/Maryland Studebaker On the Net http://stude.com My Ebay items:http://www.stude.com/EBAY/ 65 Daytona Sports Sedan 64 Daytona HT 63 R2 4 speed GT Hawk (Black) 63 R1 GT Hawk 63 Avanti R1 63 Avanti R2 63 Daytona convert 62 Lark 2 door 60 Hawk 60 Lark Convert 51 Commander >yes I know all about hard top noise and flex. > mine does neither at this time, That is a pretty car. As much as you hear about rattles and flex (My '59 hardtop did both, a lot, but I think rusty floors were a major part of that) I you look at pictures of the factory Studebaker that ran the Shell 4000 and Trans-Canadian Rallies in the early '60's, many were hard tops. Go figure. Joe Roberts thanks guys. I reread the entire page this time and sure enough they skipped those letters. thanks again,rich There is no 'i' in the calendar, so you have a 12th month! (at least this is true of GM ) > just brought home a new ride. unlike many of you I have room and money > for only one at a time, sold the four door daytona and got me a 64 two [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > if it was jan 65 would't it be vm525? > I dunno. anybody got a good guess?Rich |
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