VIN numbers allow ordinary people to be detectives, and who doesn’t want to solve a mystery?
FACT: In 1981, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration forced the standardization of VIN’s (Vehicle Identification Numbers) on all of the car manufacturers. From that point forward, all VIN’s were a 17 digit code, each digit representing an important detail about that car. LIES!! BLASPHEMY!! Ok, fine…. 16 of them are important car details, blame Einstein for the seventeenth digit. We will cover that later….
FACT: I, O, and Q are letters that are not used in VIN’s because they could be confused with 1 & 0. Letters U & Z aren’t used for the 10th digit. Crazy, I know.
FACT: Albert Einstein never owned a car, so he likely knew nothing about VIN numbers or their meaning. Does that make all of you guys smarter than Einstein? Yes, it absolutely does. Read More