'63 vin tag question

[Pancho T.]

Has anyone heard of a '63 vin tag not having the "S" in it.This is a car that I have know for 20+ years.The car itself is nothing special,a 250hp matching# roadster in older driver condition.The tag has the spot welds as you would expect.But the number 30867 xxxxxx no "S".The title which has the correct vin including the "S".

[Michael H.]

Re: '63 vin tag question

Not common but not impossible either. I've seen a lot of VIN tags with errors. Never seen one with the S missing but it's certainly possible.

[Alan Drake]

Re: '63 vin tag question

From Al Grenning's book "Authentication Library Vol 1" page 7 in reference to 1963

There was no S designation before the body number as appeared in later builds,

Great Book

[Mike L.]

Re: '63 vin tag question

I believe he is talking about the Vin Tag not the Trim tag

[John H.]

Re: '63 vin tag question

That refers to the trim tag - St. Louis-bodied Corvettes didn't have an "S" prefixed to the body number until A.O. Smith started providing bodies in January, 1964. VIN plates always had an "S" between the style/year and sequence number characters (except for this one ).