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Offline wsu0702

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1968 mustang dash VINs?
« on: March 11, 2017, 06:02:50 PM »
So did all 68 mustangs get dash VIN tags from the start of the model year?  I know that the new laws went into effect on Jan 1st 1968 and that all motor vehicles were required to have a visible VIN after then but did Ford comply right at the start of 68 model year production?  I have heard a lot of guys over the years say that their early production 68's did not have the dash VIN.  I did some googling but all of the info that I found points to every 68 should have had one.

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Re: 1968 mustang dash VINs?
« Reply #1 on: March 11, 2017, 09:02:30 PM »
Yes, they all had them. On the passenger side. In the subsquent years it was relocated to the drivers side.

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Re: 1968 mustang dash VINs?
« Reply #2 on: May 24, 2018, 12:04:41 AM »
Were all dash vin tags riveted in place for 68 ? Was a aluminum rivet used ?
8F02R218047-  July 18 1968   Dearborn

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Re: 1968 mustang dash VINs?
« Reply #3 on: May 24, 2018, 11:03:51 AM »
They were all riveted and I am sorry its been a while since I have been in there....cant recall the rivet style.

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Re: 1968 mustang dash VINs?
« Reply #4 on: May 24, 2018, 12:09:46 PM »
Thanks Pete its been awhile for this thread.
8F02R218047-  July 18 1968   Dearborn

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Re: 1968 mustang dash VINs?
« Reply #5 on: May 24, 2018, 01:25:20 PM »
Were all dash vin tags riveted in place for 68 ? Was a aluminum rivet used ?

Reportedly, SOME (though VERY FEW) VIN tags in '68 were secured using large washer screws, similar to those found on roof rails and/or console to dash brackets of a 68.

I say "reportedly" because somebody posted this a year or two ago and I myself recall seeing it this way too but I cannot validate my knowledge by anything but MEMORY. My "memory" remembers it at least being a few 68 Ford PRODUCTS, meaning my memory might be on potentially any model Ford car. I believe it was on a 68 XR-7 if I were to "guess" since I know I swapped a 68 XR7 dash into a 67 Fastback I had back in the day and that "fits" inside my empty head.
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Re: 1968 mustang dash VINs?
« Reply #6 on: May 24, 2018, 10:08:57 PM »
Richard, was the car a Dearborn car ?
8F02R218047-  July 18 1968   Dearborn

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Re: 1968 mustang dash VINs?
« Reply #7 on: May 24, 2018, 10:12:14 PM »
Richard, was the car a Dearborn car ?

No clue. Was in like 1979/80 time frame. I just remember thinking it was odd
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