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Subject:'5? Barndoor UPDATE
Date:Thu, 19 Oct 95 07:50 CDT

>From: BlueSuper@AOL.COM
>Subject: '5? Barndoor UPDATE

>Hi everyone,
>      I still havn't taken the 10 hour trip to pick up my new bus.  Maby next
>week.
>      The guy I'm buying it from did find the VIN number:  20-029 105
>Can anyone tell me anything about my bus by this number?  Could it be a late
>'51?
>                                                 Later,
>                                                        Eric
My source shows that "units produced up to the end of of
each year" for October 1952 with serial number 20-035 112.
Your bus is 6,007 short of that.  I don't recall how many a
day they were producing in '51, but my guess is that yours
was made in the summer of '51.  That close enough?

-Jim Bryant

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