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Originally posted by ramblinrev ramblinrev wrote:

I rather doubt that it's a custom order, but I don't have any good explanation for the SPEC tag. What interior is in the car? If it matches the tag, great. If it doesn't, then tag/door may have come from another car.
AMCs had some "special" colors to go with certain fleet/corporate orders. But it wasn't very often that someone ordered, say, a Playboy Pink Javelin (at least 1 was built in '72).

Since your car may be a very late build '73, does it have any obvious '74 features? (Like the big bumper guards? Or the shoulder belt/lap belt one piece combo?)
I was just wondering what the chance of it being a brochure car or an Auto Show car?


It has the 2 piece seat belts and it does have bumper guards front and rear,but what is considered big.It does have the key lock lever and when you take the e-brake off the seat belt buzzer comes on.I just bought the car and its my first AMC .I know it is from California.I have the 73 owners manual and warranty info.it still has 100% of all the emissions equipment on it also. Is there any other ''74'' stuff to look for?Could it be a preproduction 74,built in 73? It also has the complete cowl induction hood and air cleaner,which I under stand wasn't available in 74.  Could it be a dealer show car to show off the new plum color?


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But we still have overspray on the door tag.
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Originally posted by Red1975pacer Red1975pacer wrote:

But we still have overspray on the door tag.
Hi......I get it,yes there is over spray on the door tag. But that still dosen't explain why it has SPEC on the tag and what color the car is. I can assure you that the car is all the same color everywhere. 
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (1) Thanks(1)   Quote ramblinrev Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: Jul/28/2021 at 3:03pm
Right. You're there looking at the car, we're not. From the sounds of paint cracking like lacquer, and the overspray (plus the age) it sounds like it's repainted, and sounds like a color very close to or equal to one of the AMC factory colors.
But, the SPEC code is a nice mystery at this point! Not sure how to solve that!
Do this: Pull out the back seat bottom (ask if you aren't sure how), and just look on the underside of the seat bottom. There MAY be a build sheet tucked in there. That would tell us a lot!

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Without picking up a color chart, was this mystery color offered by the factory in both 73-74? Not that it matters, but my Pacer has 25 year old paint that most people assume is original. One repaint car .  Your car probably was a model year changeover time frame car, and possibly that the factory wasn’t sure of the status of the fresh plum paint continueing on .Therefore it was given a spec handling designation.   Makes sense when you factor in the build date 

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See the earlier comments on color!

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 It would probably help greatly to have enough info to come up with an approximate build date. Is the paper tag still present above the door tag? A clearer picture of the bottom number from the door tag, and last 6 from the VIN would eliminate all the guessing about it being some sort of a transition car.
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Thank you all for replying.i really appreciate the help. Ok ,so here is some more information. Yes it has a paper tag on the door that I never noticed because its painted over. Ok so I now realize the car or some of it has been repainted, but they must have stripped It down to bare steel. The car only has one coat of primer and one of paint. It was however painted the same color that it was originally.  Moving on from that ,nothing under the rear seat. Here is the VIN: A3M798P243675 and the bottom number on the door tag is hard to make out the first and last digits. W or N 06690 3 or 1 .Like I have stated before the engine compartment ,floors,inside of doors,ect  are all this purplish color.

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W for west final assembly line. I am not well versed on the lumpy Javelins, but with a 66,xxx sequence number and a 243,xxx VIN it should be no where near to 74 production start up. Someone should come along and come up with a close build date with the numbers you have provided.
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Originally posted by 71MachTA 71MachTA wrote:

Here is the VIN: A3M798P243675 and the bottom number on the door tag is hard to make out the first and last digits. W or N 06690 3 or 1 .Like I have stated before the engine compartment ,floors,inside of doors,ect  are all this purplish color.


The last 6 digits of the VIN do confirm that it is a relatively late in the model year build. The body number at the top of the tag and the production number at the bottom of the tag are now even more curious considering the late VIN.  the "W" confirms that it was assembled on the 'west' production line, which is normal for the big body cars (Javelin, Matador & Ambassador) at that time.  The low sequence production number is curious, considering the late-year VIN.  This may have been an early 73 shell that was pulled for some reason prior to final assembly for, as some have already postulated, a new paint color test. That the car has all the 73 features, like the 2-piece seat belts, etc., makes this seem likely.

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