Topic: My Vin and Cowl numbers.

[akdonkey]

Ok I am trying to ID my Vin and cowl numbers on my TransAm so guy has been calling me every day trying to buy the car. I have looked off and of for over 10 years for a decent car before I bought this one. I dont plan on letting it go but he is offering so high dollars now and I was wondering if I had something special. Both Build sheets have been found but where in such bad shape they where unreadable.
Vin  2W87K9L160256
Cowl 79      03A     2FS87L191517
       62N    69L     W
       A51 - - -  T-4010464

Here is what I came up with please correct me if I am wrong.
2    Pontiac
W  Trans-Am
87  sport coupe
K    403 4bbl
9    1979
L     CA where it was built
160256 Pro.Number

79   year
03A Not Sure here
2     Pontaic
F     BodyType
S    Series
87   BodyStyle?
L    CA
191517   Body Number

62N Camel Vinyl
69L Lower color Chesterfield brown
69U Upper color Chesterfield brown
W   Trans Am
A51  Bucket seats
T-4010464 Not sure about this. I figure it is a run number of some sorts.

I do not see anything special about this car. Or am I missing something? At least I am happy with it being a TransAm.

[Hitman]

Nope, you are not missing anything, there is nothing special about the car.  The 03A means it was built the first week of March.

[eroc022]

thats insane its most certainly special...its his t/a

[rkellerjr]

thats insane its most certainly special...its his t/a

Touche!

[akdonkey]

LOL, I dont think he ment it that way. I am kind of relieved to find that it, is what it is. Now I wont feel so bad building it like my Dream T/A I wanted back when I was 16.

[LOMILETA]

When I was younger,I wanted 2 colors of TA's. I now have My Martineque Blue 78, and I am going to get ( sometime) a Chesterfield Brown 78 also. You got any pics?

[akdonkey]

ChesterField Brown. My 77 was the same brown also. I am temped to paint it the same color. I am thinking of a Bright Metallic Red maybe, that is if I don't go black. I also just put a pic in my sig of the car. I still have not done any thing other than drive it and look for things wrong with it. I am making a list of things that are bad so when I pull it apart and put it back together in the future I can fix what is bad.

[John Witzke]

Since this is a Van Nuys CA car the W on the data plate stands for water base paint

[pontiac400]

Hi!

Is it possible to get the paint code for chesterfield brown?...my 78 T\A needs some bodywork and all seem to mix the color wrong!

Regards

Torgeir

[milly]

The 1978 paint code for Chesterfield Brown is 69, according to the Number Crunching article in the April 1995 issue of HPP.

[Hitman]

He was actually asking for the paint mix code to take to a paint shop to mix the color:
Chesterfield Brown Color Code:
Fisher "WA" Number - 7027
Dupont "Lucite" Code - 45182
Ditzler "DDL" Code - 3092

[milly]

Duh!!!