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Originally Posted by Willowrun
Did they only use odd numbers ...?
Edit: Read through post again and see that there were even numbers ....
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Yep, but the thing that got a bit hokey toward the end of Chinook's making of these was the stamped dates for manufacture. In '76 and up through most of '77, the manufacturing dates pretty much went in logical sequence with the rising serial numbers. Seems they made many in batches during particular months. Toward the end, I've seen rigs with stamped dates in the serial number plates that are January '77 for corresponding serial numbers that are lower than others that are stamped 12/76, as seen in the attached photo. Meanwhile, the lone figure for the total produced - allegedly 1,780 - comes from the second paragraph of
this magazine article, but as the photo shows below, there is a GMC Casa Grande with a serial number of #1799. My guess is some Chinook employee might have stamped out more plates than needed for the last of their camper units, and maybe the other employees just stamped in dates regardless of whether the dates were getting out of sequence with the serial numbers.
