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Mar 23, 2004 | 05:11 PM

71ranchero500

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Vin Help

Can anyone help me decode my VIN on my 71 ranchero i would like to know everything about it

The owners card says

1A47F256198 M 72
66B GB 15E 6 W

if you can tell me everything you know about it that would be great

i've looked all over for a good decoder on the web and have found nothing

Thanks

Mar 23, 2004 | 06:32 PM

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http://216.239.37.104/translate_c?hl...ero/facts1.htm

the site above was translated from german. it will tell you the basics about your ranchero, but nothing more than what engine it came with, where its from and year.

Mar 24, 2004 | 12:32 AM

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hey cool thanks a bunch if anyone knows how to find out what rear end i have from that that would help too

Mar 24, 2004 | 12:44 AM

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http://www.motorcoder.com/torino/vindcode/VINSPLIT.HTML

that might help, but i'm not sure. It might be for 1973 torinos only. I could not put in the data plate for my 1970 ranchero 500 because the ink on the sticker has faded to the point were you cannot see it.

i belive there used to be several resources on the internet to find out what the racnchero vins and data plates meant, but they are no longer availible. IROC www.ranchero.org supposedly had the decoder but they shut down.

Mar 24, 2004 | 11:32 AM

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Hey that worked thanks

Mar 25, 2004 | 07:24 PM

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the IROC site is still there, kinda. there is an archive record of it somehow.
http://web.archive.org/web/200306012....ranchero.org/
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