Curious Mustang DSO #
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Curious Mustang DSO #
Hello everyone!
I received an excelent book for a birthday gift called "Fox-Body Mustang Recognition guide." The book is divided into chapters that detail every year and at the end of the chapters it has a door tag decoder. I decoded my Mustang's door tag and everything makes sense except the DSO #. My DSO# is 89 and according to the book that means "Transportation Services". What does that mean? Could this mean that it was a rental car at some time? The car was originally from Arizona so I expected a Phoenix number or somewhere else out west. I bought the car from my boss, who bought it from an auction in Chandler, AZ in 1988. Anyone got any Ideas?
Thanks!
I received an excelent book for a birthday gift called "Fox-Body Mustang Recognition guide." The book is divided into chapters that detail every year and at the end of the chapters it has a door tag decoder. I decoded my Mustang's door tag and everything makes sense except the DSO #. My DSO# is 89 and according to the book that means "Transportation Services". What does that mean? Could this mean that it was a rental car at some time? The car was originally from Arizona so I expected a Phoenix number or somewhere else out west. I bought the car from my boss, who bought it from an auction in Chandler, AZ in 1988. Anyone got any Ideas?
Thanks!
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Transportation Service: Executive vehicle. Depending on the models, used by corporate bigwigs, Parts & Service reps, Sales rep's (road men) and etc.
If the Mustang had been ordered from the Phoenix AZ Ford District Sales Office, then sold to a dealer, the DSO code would be 75.
Most, if not all the info in your Fox Body guide, was taken from FoMoCo parts catalogs.
The 1980/89 Ford & L/M Passenger Car Parts Catalog is available on a CD from hipoparts.com.
btw: Because of franchise agreements between FoMoCo and their dealers, all rental cars that are sold new (to Hertz, Budget and etc) are sold by the dealers, even though they prolly won't see any of them.
What they will see is all the paperwork for each vehicle, and that's it.
A 'small town' dealer I worked at in the 1990's had the "Hertz" contract. All the west coast Hertz vehicles were sold by this dealer (they made $100.00 each on circa 22,000 vehicles per year).
This is known in the biz as a courtesy delivery. The dealer then advertised itself as the "Largest Selling Ford Dealer in the World." But...
If you took away all the rental cars sales, it would not have been....by a long shot.
If the Mustang had been ordered from the Phoenix AZ Ford District Sales Office, then sold to a dealer, the DSO code would be 75.
Most, if not all the info in your Fox Body guide, was taken from FoMoCo parts catalogs.
The 1980/89 Ford & L/M Passenger Car Parts Catalog is available on a CD from hipoparts.com.
btw: Because of franchise agreements between FoMoCo and their dealers, all rental cars that are sold new (to Hertz, Budget and etc) are sold by the dealers, even though they prolly won't see any of them.
What they will see is all the paperwork for each vehicle, and that's it.
A 'small town' dealer I worked at in the 1990's had the "Hertz" contract. All the west coast Hertz vehicles were sold by this dealer (they made $100.00 each on circa 22,000 vehicles per year).
This is known in the biz as a courtesy delivery. The dealer then advertised itself as the "Largest Selling Ford Dealer in the World." But...
If you took away all the rental cars sales, it would not have been....by a long shot.
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