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Old 01-03-2024, 10:03 PM   #471
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Re: The build date project

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Originally Posted by 402Bowtie View Post
Maybe! Let me try one more time.

For why I wouldn't add it to the list, here is a real life example from the 72 chevy list:
2A103580 = 9/71 (post 314)
2A107594 = 9/71 (post 196)

Both of the above are based on pictures of door stickers. Assuming the door stickers are accurate, we can safely assume that all serial numbers between 2A103580 and 2A107594 were built in September. If you found a door sticker for 2A106000, what value would it add to our list?...I would suggest no value is added. We already knew that all serial numbers between the two numbers above (including 2A106000) were September trucks.

However, if you found a build sheet for 2A106000 (and let's pretend the build date was 9/15/71) well now that provides value because we can now narrow down other serial numbers to the first half of the month or the second half of the month. I would add 2A106000 in this scenario.

Similarly, if you found a door sticker for 2A107599 that showed 9/71, I would also add that to the list because that provides new information that we couldn't prove beforehand. (It also would make the 2A107594 data point useless in that scenario).

Keep in mind that each post has a character count. Including the hyperlinks consumes a lot of the character counts. That is my main reason for not wanting to include useless data points on posts 63-65. In fact, that is why I had to split the list into three posts.
I don't get it.

Just kidding. I had the impression you added everything to the list, but now I get your point. Other than that, interesting that not all factories produced build sheets.
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