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Actually, my experience with 72s is just the opposite, V21/V25 is coded on St Louis cars, but Winsor cars only had V21 on the tag.

As for 71s, I have to disagree with you on that too. I've been tracking these cars for a long time now. I have very early cars from all plants with N96 and no V21, and I also have very late build cars with V21 and N96 on the tag. There is no coding trend based on build plant either.
The car pictured was a two tag car, so there would be no reason to try to save tag space.

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Whoops. I stand corrected on the 72. Just checked a couple of photos. My StL build car has a repro tag with no V25, so it threw me. I've seen a couple Windsor tags lacking the V25.

May have just depended on who was stamping tags on that day.

71 N96's are inconsistent for sure, both on the tag code, and the actual paint application.