Weird zx serial number

[Deb]

My 83zx has a serial number not listed on any web sites. Supposedly the 83zx ran 500006-575494 numbers. Mine is a 5768... Unless I am understanding this wrong, 575494 was the lasz zx produced. What am I missing?

[datzenmike]

For end of the '83 model year in June of '83 I get ...

 

550006-575494 for the 2 seater

 

500006-509830 for the 2+2

 

750006-757691 for the 2 seat turbo

 

700012-703627 for the 2+2 turbo

[Deb]

Why do I have #576864?

[Deb]

It is a non-turbo coupe with t-top,5 speed manual transmission and pizzaz...

[Deb]

It fits nowhere

[datzenmike]

Only the '79 zx had the 4 speed.

 

I don't know. Many things are published but subject to changes. This is why FSMs have revision printings. I have a 1st revision February 1984 '84 720 manual.

 

By your number over a thousand more zx's were produced.

[Deb]

Well my 83 has a 5 speed. Was there possibly a special edition of the 83 zx?

[Deb]

I've only had it less then a year..it was sitting, mice living in it when I bought it. It has been great fun and this site and everybody on it great info. This is probably just some (more) weirdness that seems to be the nature of this car!

[datsunaholic]

You've made sure it's not a typo on the title?  Data plates all match?  Firewall VIN matches?

 

The title on my 320 doesn't match the dataplates because someone miskeyed in the VIN.  Used a lower case "l" instead of an upper case "l", except back in the 1960s most typewriters used a lower case "l"  for the number 1, and they didn't have a separate "1".  So when it got transcribed, it became 1320 instead of L320 since the "l" was the only letter in the serial number.

 

 

If everything matches up, it's probably a case of the publications being wrong. 

[datzenmike]

Well my 83 has a 5 speed. Was there possibly a special edition of the 83 zx?

 

Yes the '79 had 4 speeds and the 5 speed was an option. From '80 on only 5 speeds were available. A Special Edition would have been recorded I would think.

 

For the '83 production year, Mar had the lowest production with 1739 non turbo coupes, Oct '82  highest with 3,450 so they can produce almost 3,500 cars in a month. Maybe there were enough left over parts and 575494 was a forecast?

[Noflers]

Could it be that other owners have swapped other parts on to the car? 

[datzenmike]

Other parts are not in question only the chassis number. There is the car number plate on the cowl just behind the valve cover that is easy enough to swap but why swap or make one with an obscure number ????

[Deb]

Well I double checked my title and the car vin plate and identification plate and they all have the same number 576864....so the publications are wrong?? I own christines brother?? Oh well...hey anybody know where I can get a ratsun sticker?

[Deb]

Its a jap model sold in japan then brought back to america?

[datsunaholic]

A Japanese model Fairlady ZX would be pretty obvious...  Having the steering wheel on the wrong side being a more subtle clue... 

 

Believe me, the publications, even the official Nissan ones, are not always right. 

 

Much like the 2 1976 Datsun 620 King Cabs I have owned. Pretty much every publication says they were introduced in 1977.  Except that I've had a '77 as well, and there were enough differences (like a very different wiring harness!) and a date of manufacture well before the end of the '76 production run.  Or the 1976 Model Year emissions stickers both of them had...

[MikeRL411]

A Japanese model Fairlady ZX would be pretty obvious...  Having the steering wheel on the wrong side being a more subtle clue... 

 

Believe me, the publications, even the official Nissan ones, are not always right. 

 

Much like the 2 1976 Datsun 620 King Cabs I have owned. Pretty much every publication says they were introduced in 1977.  Except that I've had a '77 as well, and there were enough differences (like a very different wiring harness!) and a date of manufacture well before the end of the '76 production run.  Or the 1976 Model Year emissions stickers both of them had...

 

Early "Model Year" production units have a problem!  They are produced before the next model year emission standards are published, and so are built and certified to the standards in place as of the date manufactured, not the later fully published standards.  My 1997 Infiniti J30T is one of these "trapped" units havind a 3 digit for the production model year VIN.  When I bring it in for biennial smog check I have to point out the smog certification sticker to the test tech so that I don't get in to a pissing contest with the DMV.