[urq] WX 000 011... anyone have an earlier??

[Martin Pajak]

Alex,

I would hope that just like other "hand made" vehicles on dedicated assembly line there would be some sort of an order, especially when only a handfull are made per day...

However given that:
#562 had engine #15
#572 had engine #11
#652 had engine #13
that theory goes out the window.. however all of these cars were made in Dec 1981, so certainly batches were possible.. maybe 20 WX engined cars were made that month?  Certainly looks like one of the first batch. It would be nice to know.

I know few years back drof used to make 11000 Explorers per week! 

Cheers
Martin 

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: alexander stickler <a_stickler at yahoo.com>
Date:  Tue, 26 Jul 2005 15:28:24 -0400 (EDT)

>Hi Martin,
>
>Keep in mind that the castings for the engine do not
>necessarily indicate even the engine build sequence. I
>would venture a guess that finding any engine numbers
>in sequence with chassis numbers would be more
>coincidence than anything.  One piece flow probably
>would not hold from engine build area through to the
>final assembly area.  I don't know much about how Audi
>built these cars, but all NA plants have their engine
>plants acting as suppliers to their vehicle assembly
>plants. The build sheet would probably specify that a
>particular engine model/engineering level be used, but
>not a specific engine number. 
>
>I think you will find that early cars are lumped with
>early chassis numbers based on the build authority
>(how far out they can build) that the engine plant
>had.
>
>Alex
>--- Martin Pajak <Martin at quattro.ca> wrote:
>
>> Cool!
>> 
>> This one has both sunroof and rear wiper..
>> Interesting... I wonder how many others are out
>> there out of sequence.. mine is 12/81
>> 
>> Cheers
>> Martin 
>> 
>> ---------- Original Message
>> ----------------------------------
>> From: "W. Stedman" <wstedman at sbcglobal.net>
>> Date:  Tue, 26 Jul 2005 08:35:03 -0700
>> 
>> >Hey Martin I have car # C00562 and just looked at
>> the engine code and it 
>> >is 015 did your car take cuts at one point!
>> >My car also did not come with a sun roof or a rear
>> wiper.
>> >
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