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TIRE SIZING COMPARISON AND CALCULATOR
TIRE SIZING COMPARISON AND CALCULATOR
DECODING THE TRI-FIVE CHEVY PASSENGER CAR VIN
1955 - 1957
Disclaimer: The following VIN decoding information was compiled from numerous sources, and may contain errors, or omissions. These are our best efforts at providing accurate information, but we, nor those we credit with supplying information, can be responsible for errors
SERIAL NUMBER LOCATION
The VIN tag is located on a stainless steel plate that is spot welded to the driver's side front door jamb. Although, hard to see, Chevrolet also had the vehicle identification number stamped on the frame roughly below the drivers seat.
DECODING THE VIN
DIGIT 1 - MODEL TYPE
The VIN may be ten or eleven characters long. The letter "V" before the first digit is the eleventh character, and denotes a V8 engine in the 1955 - 1957 cars. For cars originally equipped with a six cylinder engine, the "V" was omitted and the VIN would be only ten characters long rather than eleven..
DIGIT 2 & 3 - YEAR OF VEHICLE
DIGIT 4 - ASSEMBLY PLANT
DIGIT 5+ - SEQUENCE NUMBER
Each plant used their own sequence numbers and usually started with number - 001001 for 1955 and 1956, and 10001 for 1957. This number became the car's serial number.
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