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Originally Posted by Cobra #3170
Several people in my home town bought Cobra's in the 1965 calendar year yet they were titled as 1966 cars. Apparently the serial number has nothing to do with title date on Cobra's, just the date the car was sold. The first car in our town was delivered in late June or early July and it was a 31xx car titled as a 1966. I understand about the serial numbers not being in order on the last two digits but what about the 2nd digit I.E. 0,1,2,3 did they mean anything other than the series?
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The second digit was a 'new' contract series and each series showed production changes. An example would be the elimination of an
oil scoop with the 33xx series or the change to round taillights with the 32xx series.
The 31xx series had perhaps the most ‘changes’ within the series. The first eight used comp/SC bodies that remained at AC from the 30xx series. Then 16 or so had wide rear flairs, the next 34 had narrow rear flairs and than back to wide rear flares.
Lower CSX numbers not sold by late 1966 were ‘updated to 1967 models and they received ‘new’ MSOs specifying that they were 1967 models. The footbox tag was updated with 67- preceding the CSX number.