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Post by frankstrailerworks on Jul 20, 2011 17:01:37 GMT -5
Can anyone tell me what P 1458 might mean age wise? I do not want to join yet another yahoo group to read the decoder. I hear a chart is posted there, but just do not want more emails coming in. She is a Compact and most likely early 60's. Thank you, Frank
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Post by 61shastacompact on Jul 20, 2011 20:09:14 GMT -5
The "P" means it was built in the Leola, Pennsylvania plant. Your number is assigned sequentially and the year of manufacture was answered in your previous post.
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Post by frankstrailerworks on Jul 21, 2011 3:37:58 GMT -5
Answered already?
Early 60's is a year? How is it you know your trailer is 1961? Is it just a guess or are there actual ranges of the years? I own three Airstreams. It is very clear by the serial number when they were built. Why is the Shasta serial number such a mystery?
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Post by harrison429 on Jul 21, 2011 5:26:20 GMT -5
There are many threads which tell people how to date their trailers...check the underside of the sink or the back side of the mirror...both will have dates which will give you a year of the trailer.
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Post by 61shastacompact on Jul 21, 2011 19:33:23 GMT -5
This was my reply to your "howdy" introduction question: vintageshasta.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=introductions&action=display&thread=3129Comparing to the Shasta registry on the Yahoo groups, it looks like your Compact would be a '63 model year. The canned ham styled Compacts were produced from 1959-1964. Combined with the VIN comparison that I went to the trouble to do for you and the styling cues of your trailer, my belief is that your Compact is a 1963. Do I know this to be fact....NO! But, I would say that I am 90+% sure. Mine is titled as a model year 1961 but was built more than likely summer 1960 since California production moved from the Van Nuys plant (where mine was built) in the Fall of 1960.
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Post by katstar on Jul 21, 2011 21:16:59 GMT -5
Hello Frank, I agree with Jim and will back him up on his assessment that your Compact is very likely a 1963 model. Unlike some other trailers, Shasta did not provide much information encoded into their VINs and it can be frustrating. The only thing you can do without an original title, is try to figure it out, based on the body style and features of the trailer along with a few other clues. As you've been told, the letter at the beginning of the VIN indicates which factory it came from. The numbers that follow indicate its production number coming out of the factory. The production numbers are sequential, so if you have a reference of other VINs close to your number, your trailer is within the same age range. All of that being said, the Leola, PA factory did not open until 1963. Therefore your trailer, coming from that factory, has to be from that year or later. I have attached a press release announcing the opening of the Pennsylvania factory, dated June 1963. Hope this helps to clear up the mystery for you, Kat Attachments:
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Post by katstar on Jul 21, 2011 21:18:28 GMT -5
And here is a photo of an ad for the 1963 Compact... Kat Attachments:
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Post by 61shastacompact on Jul 22, 2011 17:49:17 GMT -5
Thanks for the additional information Kat. I think that the Compact in the ad that you have pictured is an earlier example due to the fact that it is lacking the forward side clearance marker light, like mine. It seems that later models, starting around '62-'63, all came with the additional forward light.
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