New guy need help with year of jeep

I just made a deal on an early cj5 66-71 model. The vin is 8305C17354908. I have looked everywhere and nothing tells me what year it is. Can any one here tell me based off the vin? I know it's 66-71 because it has the 225 Dauntless V6 but how can I tell what the exact year is? It has no title. Will the vin plate tell a production date?

 

Ok I've got pics how do I post them? That's it in my profile pic how do I post more here? It has the dauntless V6

 

Ok it looks like I'm not allowed to post pics yet

 

Put your pics on a photo hosting site such as photo bucket. Then, copy and paste the url in your post. See below:

The "C" may be for Canadian built. I forget but, that rings a bell with me somehow. But,.......I could be wrong....

http://www.earlycj5.net/forums/showthread.php?78830-Posting-photos

This http://www.earlycj5.net/forums/show...is-thread-for-Serial-Number-or-VIN-questions-!! may help in decoding your VIN, as well. I haven't read it all, myself.

 

Ok thank you! I have it narrowed down to 66-70 because the fuel tank is under the driver seat.

 

8305c17354908

 

My '70 was made in Aug '69 based on my vin: 358114. I extrapolated between known VINs with known DOM.

According to this thread: http://www.earlycj5.net/forums/show...is-thread-for-Serial-Number-or-VIN-questions-!! 351704 is a '69 made possibly in September '68.

Regards,
Tim

 

So does this mean it's narrowed to to 68 or 69? Thanks for all the help by the way this site is awesome!

 

Looks like it would be a '69, by the listed VINs. New model years were sometimes built at the end of the previous year, say Oct. of '68, for the '69 model year and sold as a '69, in '69. Sometimes, if, in the same build scenario, the JEEP was on the lot before Jan 1 of the model year, it could have been titled as the year it was sold. For instance, a '69 model that arrived on the lot in Oct of '68 and was sold in Nov of '68. It a 1969 model, with all the 1969 pieces and parts but, titled a '68 because it was sold in '68. Sort of muddies the water a bit. The VIN is ultimate deciding factor. Yours appears to likely be a '69.

I notice the bottom mount wipers and low glass windshield.

Looks like you have a good solid starting point.

 

Thank you ! I was very pleased to find it. Not much rust

 

The VIN on these Jeeps does not tell you much, unlike VINs on modern cars. "8305" is CJ-5, open body. Not sure about the "c" but the rest is sequential serial number. Jeep continued incrementing the serial numbers across the year models, so the serial number will give you some indication of when it was built. The document on the thread linked to above will help with this.

 

what I know from vin decoders is 8305 is cj5 open body C is Canadian built 1 is left hand drive 7 is dauntless V6 354908 is sequential serial number but I can't find anything on the year yet

 

You are looking at the DropBox PDF? I looked there and found the "C17" decoding - AFAIK that's the only and most exact year-reference for the Kaiser era CJ-5s and CJ-6s.

If you interpolate between what numbers are listed, realize that production volume changes throughout the year. Lots of vehicles are made for the start of the model year (September), and volume falls off and stops as the mid-summer retooling starts.