Pre production vehicles are used to test the fit and the line
processes etc. They cannot be sold or given to employees etc. They
are used solely for test purposes and are required to be destroyed by
the safety agencies.  A few years back, the Engineering Faculty here
was given a preproduction Chrysler mini van to use in a student
contest re hybrid design. It had no wipers as they didn't work as
designed and had to be fine tuned. They were required to return the
vehicle for destruction at the end of the project.

On May 2, 2007, at 10:00 PM, Automatic digest processor wrote:

> Date:    Wed, 2 May 2007 19:11:55 -0500
> From:    Matt Roberds <mattroberds@COX.NET>
> Subject: Re: vin info and request ... :)
>
>> From:    joel walker <jwalker17@EARTHLINK.NET>
>> Date:    Tue, 1 May 2007 07:44:55 -0500
>>
>> it seems that the lowest vin is 000200. why start with 200? start up?
>> the first 200 are 'experiments' to make sure the production line
>> works?
>
> I