SD> A Shelby Dakota mystery

[Barry Goodall]

Ooops, a typo below.   I meant to type all Shelby Dakota 
VINs start with 1BFL96Y  (not X as shown below).

Barry



> You might have stumbled across the first (now documented)
> Shelby clone, because the VIN is not on the list.   I 
> don't
> have an 89 truck FSM to reference to decode the meaning, 
> but
> the 6th digit in the VIN should be a 9 for all the Shelby
> Dakota's according to the listing (this VIN shows a 6).
> And all the Shelby Dakota VIN's I have in our member
> database do start out with 1BFL96X.
>
> I have a VIN checker which matches the VIN against it's
> check digit, and the VIN you supplied is accurate for the
> check digit of 7.
>
> Barry
>
>> There wasn't alot of paperwork left in the truck but it
>> appeared to be used by someone that did house
>> painting in Lakeland, Florida. I did write down the
>> VIN number so someone could do check it with the
>> list of numbered Whittier built vehicles for me.
>>
>> It reads 1B7FL66X7KS073267
>>
>> I had someone run a CARFAX report and it spent
>> most of it's life in Lakeland, Florida followed by
>> Melbourne, FL before being retired here to the
>> junkyard here in Jacksonville.
>>