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

[Jeff Lewis]

My 1982 is C00535 no sunroof, no rear wiper. manuf. 
Nov.1981

My WX is in a crate in the garage, maybe I should open it 
up and look?

Jeff Lewis



On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 19:58:26 +0000
  "Martin Pajak" <Martin at quattro.ca> wrote:
> 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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