Hi folks, I am looking for assistance with information.
I am writing a program to decode all the Ford VIN prefixes in the
world.
Australia, Europe, Brazil, Argentina, etc, everywhere except the US.
Please excuse my language, I speak only English and use Alta Vista
Babel Fish to translate.
There is an Australian verision already online, as well as the X-
File experimental.The X-File is the world version.
These programs are online. If you want to assist with the gathering
of knowledge and it being put into one place that

does a job, (in the program) it can only benefit all of us and those
in the future, because at the moment,
all the info is scattered all around the world, and none of it seems
to be in one place.
The X-File does of course, Australia, and England or European models
from the classic period 1960's to 1980's.
There are some holes no doubt in the European or English model line.
There may be some in the Australian line.
Only if other people put their two bob's worth in will we ever know.
The big holes are in the Asian or Japanese

produced Ford CKD kits assembled in Australia and overseas.
Anyway, have a look at the software.
There is also 3 sample pages from a book of Ford Australia model
numbers 1961-1971 Passenger Vehicles and

Trucks.
The Ford stuff is all at,

http://www.vk3ukf.com/vk3ukf_files/Ford/Ford.htm

A few years ago we did a date decoder for Mexican vehicles, as their
date codes are different.
We received help from the South of the Border Mustang Registry at,

http://www.hammar.dyndns.org/~mexmust/index.html

and Mr Robert Hernandez on that. The Mexican decoder is also
available on the vk3ukf Ford page above.
Ford date codes differ between 1978 and 1985 in Europe, Australia
and Mexico.
The other South American countries just use the European date system.
The date codes systems all match outside these years but in between
it is confusing.
So have a gig and help out if you can, with
Australian and foreign model numbers such as we use 33 for a GT,
they use what?
Australian and foreign places of assembly codes, e.g. G and L =
Melbourne, K = Sydney, A = Auckland and L =

Lower Hutt in New zealand. etc.
Primary production codes such as J = Australia, K = Argentina, U=
Japan etc.

The software already knows these and others, so before you tell us
anything, make sure the program does not

contain it.

If you have your favourite Ford car site in your language, please
also send the URL to us.

Thanks in advance, Kevin Forbes. VK3UKF.