NEWEST & OLDEST FESTIVA

[muscle_Car1]

Me & alicia were having a disagreement about who's festiva is newer. It sparked the idea to find out who has the newest & the oldest festiva on here.

Alicia's was built 9/92 according to the door tag
mine was buitl 3/92 according to the door tag

who's else?

Couldn't we figure it out by the VIN also? Like the last 6 digits?

[5.0zone]

Mine was born 12/87.

[25Horseplay]

The build date pretty much says it, yours is older!

[freshtiva]

I thought freshtiva was 10/92 but I went out and looked at the door jam and it says 02/02/93 :?: Is that possible ? I can post a pic. Hey, thats groundhogs day.

[Damkid]

as far as i know (and i was told this by a friend who is a mechanic) the last 6 numbers of your VIN is what number the car is off of the assembly line

[todd00]

thats what it says in the festiva repair book about vin numbers also.

[Damkid]

i'm pretty sure that goes for any make and model

[muscle_Car1]

as far as i know (and i was told this by a friend who is a mechanic) the last 6 numbers of your VIN is what number the car is off of the assembly line

Thats what I thought. Is that # per year or total?

[Damkid]

i'm assuming per year, otherwise it would have to be more than 6 numbers for some cars at least

[muscle_Car1]

yeah but I was cautious of telling people the VIN on the internet

[Damkid]

yeah, i don't blame you there

[F3BZ]

the last 6 digits of the VIN # is the production sequence # starting with 100,001-599,999 for that year so that would be the tie-breaker if 2 cars happened to be made on the same day (door jamb sticker). the 10th digit in the VIN is the model year so i would think its possible that a 93 could have been actually manufactured in late 92 but still be sold and titled as a 93. all we'd need to know is the 10th digit and the last 6 numbers of your VIN (honor system). mine is P (93) and 132518 (32,518th festy).

[freshtiva]

32,518 festivas, wow thats a thought.

Here is my entry for the newest

http://tinyurl.com/yf2sf7

[mattswabb]

I bought my first one new in October of 93. It's long gone, no idea of the actual build date.

[F3BZ]

dammit freshtiva i just had to go out into the cold dark nite with a flashlight to look at my sticker hoping to have beaten your 'fresherstiva' build date. i lost -12/23/92. double dammit! i gotta go out an get a birthday card now!