Serial Number Help

Not sure if this is the proper place to ask, but I need some help decoding my VIN. It’s supposed to be a 1967, but the number seems to fit into the 1965 range from what I’ve seen. However, I only saw 8305A/B prefixes. My jeep is 8305C. The full vin is 8305C 208966WC. There is a second metal plate that reads “CJ-5 Kaiser Jeep of Canada, Windsor, Ontario. Any help would be appreciated.

 

Here's this, from another forgotten source: https://jeepwillysworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Vehicle_Indentification.pdf

And this, that came from the bowels of ECJ5 and seems to be trustworthy from all I've read: https://www.beamingpix.com/images/2020/11/28/SerialNosMonthly65---67.gif

 

Yeah, I saw those but I didn’t the C prefix listed.

 

Ah ok. Didn't read the post carefully enough.

 

Could it be a Canada build designator?

 

Yes, c is Canada built.

 

What is “WC” at the end?

 

Turns out you don’t have a Jeep at all. You actually have a classic Jaguar

 

I have no info on characters after the sequential serial number.

 

Is the “WC” suffix for Windsor Canada where it was built? I seen to remember seeing that before.
As to the crazy Jaguar ID that popped up, that reply is garbage, the site is useless. I happen to have a ‘63 Jag XKE and the serial number is 6 digits and starts with 8887XX for a Coupe, or 879XXX for a Convertable.
-Donny

 

For Toledo built CJ5’s, 208966 shows a February 1966 build date. Do Windsor built Jeeps share the same serial numbers with Toledo built Jeeps, or do the Canadian Jeeps have a separate, but parallel set of serial numbers?
-Donny

 

Does this mean that the jeep was sold in Canada? Or built in Canada for export?

 

Or built in Canada for the Canadian domestic market, I think is the answer. Yours’ just migrated here to Florida likely with a snowbird sometime over the decades.
-Donny