[djpateman]

Originally Posted by mhackney

In the last month, I've uncovered that there were a small number of 83 Cabs imported to Japan. All of these cars were LHD and apparently there were 90 of them in the VIN range of: WP0ZZZ91ZDS159501-159590. Having learned this, I went through my data and did some deeper searches and I now have 5 Japanese 83 Cabriolets listed in the registry. I have engine #s for 3 of them and a tranny # for 1. All 5 are in the narrow range of -78 to -89: the high end of the VINs imported. I find that odd.

From about 1970 the first 10 in the VIN range were reserved for factory use. Many were used to renumber old race cars that got updated and some would have been used for prototypes or crash testing. More recently it seems that the first 60 VIN were reserved. However I do not know when this started, nor do I know if it applied to all VIN series. It would not surprise me if the reason your VIN's are skewed to the high end due to none being produced with lower VIN.