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Title: VIN says one thing, truck is another! weird!
Post by: timberghstt on March 07, 2007, 12:52:00 pm: hey folks, I just bought a '77 chevy 4x4 pickup from a friend of mine down in South GA, it's a great truck! but after some investigating found out the VIN and the truck as it is now don't match! Here's how the truck as it is now:

1977 Chevy 4x4 pickup
LWB
stock SB 350 engine w/4 bbl quadrabog
stock exhaust man.
TH350 tranny
ain't washed the grease off the xfer case to get any #'s on it.
locking hubs
3" suspension lift (cheap block setup for now)
3" body lift (looks a lot better than I thought it would)

Anyways here is my breakdown of the VIN:

C=Cheverolet
C=conventional cab (?? what? K= 4 wheel drive and it's a 4 wheel drive!)
S= 454-4 (?? what!? truck has a 350 in it! L=350-4)
4= heavy half (whatever that implies)
4=pickup
7=1977
A=Lakewood Assembly plant
155,844=build sequence (truck was the 55,844th unit produced)

I took some pics of a sticker on the inside of the lid to the glovebox, here they are:

Can anybody tell me how this C10 morphed into a K10? Sorry if I'm not clear on all this. I'm just curious how my truck went from the truck described by the VIN to the one it is now. Funny, I was thinking about dropping a 454 in it before I researched the VIN. Tell me what ye think!

thanks!

Jimbo
Title: Re: VIN says one thing, truck is another! weird!
Post by: BILTUP on March 07, 2007, 12:36:00 pm: Good question! Someone must have converted it or replaced the cab with a 2wd unit? Some strange things have happened with engine codes i think. My 1980 3/4 ton has an engine code of 'x', some decodes show it as a 400 while others don't show it at all. The motor is a 350.
Title: Re: VIN says one thing, truck is another! weird!
Post by: BILTUP on March 07, 2007, 12:41:00 pm: SERIES PAYLOAD #
C10 960 - 2680
BIG-10 1980 - 2355 (heavy half)
C20 2075 - 3930
C30 2125 - 5720
K10 1790 - 2495
K20 2120 - 4250
K30 3795 - 5345

This is what i could find.
Title: vin
Post by: Redneckchevy on March 07, 2007, 03:16:00 pm: U could wright down the vin ill carfax it for ya tells ya if its was wrecked and what all was done with it..I bought a car fax and its going to waste :/ update never mind...car fax is for 81 and up sorry.. $:\$
Edited by: Redneckchevy at: 3/7/07 3:32 pm
Title: Re: vin
Post by: timberghstt on March 07, 2007, 02:43:00 pm: VIN= CCS447A155844

btw I put some thumbnail links to pics of the truck in a post to the "Get to Know" thread. Right now it's the last post in the thread.

thanks fer the replies!

Jimbo
Title: Re: vin
Post by: roundedline on March 07, 2007, 04:52:00 pm: Are you getting the VIN from the glovebox or the dash? The glovebox can easily be swapped out?

If they in fact don't match, the cab probably was swapped out.
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