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durhamclassics | February 16, 2009 08:03 PM | in Cars & Transportation | about Alfa Romeo Duetto

when was the manufactured year of the spider with VIN ZAR11535000007463

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richtcs | February 16, 2009 09:01 PM

According to Carfax.com, this VIN is not valid. Apparently they only track North American cars after 1981....so the Alfa Romeo won't qualify.

http://www.carfax.com/

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colettel | February 20, 2009 09:17 PM

With American manufacturers, the year is indicated by the tenth digit of the VIN number. There is really no zero used tho.... Model years 1971 thru 1979 use character codes 1-9 respectively. Beginning with the model year 1980, alpha characters were used and began with A indicating model year 1980 and ended with Y indicating model year 2000. There is no Z model year designation. Beginning with model year 2010, alpha characters will begin to be used, beginning with A indicating model year 2010.

European manufacturers are not as strict at adhering to this rule of thumb tho... and there is no specific digit that represents the year.

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