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Old 07-22-2010, 10:34 AM   #31
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Re: My XP1LM photos from London motorshow

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Based on the known LM VINs we have there's nothing in the 17-digit sequence that differentiates one from a road car or identifies it as an LM.
And I thought the LMs had the LM# in the end of the VIN as seen from the Brunei cars:

LM1 = SA9AB5AC9T1048LM1
LM4 = SA9AB5AC4T1048LM4
LM5 = SA9AB5AC6T1048LM5

I think it was the GT's that had similar VINs as the standard road cars, such as the 54GT = SA9AR5BC8T1048054

I could guess the XP1LM has something different from the road cars and other protos, maybe XLM.
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Re: My XP1LM photos from London motorshow

Right - but those are the chassis numbers for those cars.

My point, which wasn't clearly stated I guess, was that there's no special letter or digit in the Vehicle Descriptor Section (postitions 4-9) of the VINs identfying them as LMs. They match the road cars exactly with the 'AB5AC'. I would think that they'd be different enough to warrant some kind of variance there.

Your XLM theory is another good possibility.

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Re: My XP1LM photos from London motorshow

^^^^ Ok, that's more clear (pos. 4-9) and that's the same for all "short tail" road cars, seems that "long tail" GTs have it different at that.
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And finally the last little batch and thats the lot! hope you enjoyed them.Cheers Alan W.




Well done, mate! Thanks.
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