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Originally Posted by Keith Seymore
It varied by plant, model year and nameplate.
When I was growing up in Flint Chevrolets started with 300001 (or 100001) and GMC with 500001.
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Keith, I've been working on this for a while now. I can document everything so far with SPIDs and GM documents(memos bulletins etc..). More changes could be coming, I'm still researching 1971 Flint GMC's. These numbers are correct for all plants including Canada.
Country Suburban 4X4, 68OrangeSunshine has your VIN correctly decoded with his correction in post 4. Your truck was built in Oshawa Canada as a Fenderside(Stepside). It is a 1970. Because it was built in Canada you can get a breakdown of the build through the heritage center. But it cost money and doesn't contain much more information than your SPID has on it. Here is a link if you decide to purchase.
http://www.gmmediaarchive.com/?page=3
Your truck was built as a Fenderside (stepside) as shown by both the VIN and model number.
CE15904
C = 2wd
E = V-8
1 = 1/2 Ton
59 = 127" Wheelbase (Longbed)
04 = Fenderside (Stepside)
Your truck went from a Fenderside (Stepside) to a Wideside (Fleetside) in one of two ways. The most likely is a bed swap by a previous owner. Or like 68OrangeSunshine suggested it could be a cab and doghouse swap. If so the frame partial VIN won't match the cab VIN. You can find your frame VIN in the spots illustrated below. Some GMC's didn't get a frame VIN. Although they all were supposed to, we are finding lot's of GMC's that are missing the the frame VIN(1971 and previous). If your frame partial VIN and cab VIN match then it was a bed swap.
Nice looking truck BTW.
71swb4X4, Thanks for the shoutout and the kind words. But I didn't list all the starting numbers on my decoders because of space limitations and at the time I still hadn't figured what was going on in Flint in 71 and 72.
68OrangeSunshine, For Chevrolet, the year is first then the assembly plant. GMC's are reversed, Assembly plant first then year. This is true for 5 years 67-71. In 72 GMC caught up with Chevy and the formats were the same.