Been doing a lot of research lately on VON numbers and am seeing a pattern that certain regions got pads of order forms that were very close. I believe that the regional office gave out the order pads to the dealers so if cars are from the same region they should have close VON's. This is not a hard and fast rule however, let me give some examples, these are all 1970 Dart's built at the Windsor Plant:

1970 Dodge Dart 4 Door, LH41C0R, SPD B14, sold at Pauley Motors in Shelton, WA - VON is 071482
1970 Dodge Dart 2 Door, LH23G0R, SPD B18, sold at Valley Motors in Auburn, WA - VON is 071523

As you can see very close VON numbers and both were ordered cars. Next example that is just going to confuse people because the VON's are way off from the same dealer:

1970 Dodge Dart 4 Door, LH41C0R, SPD 204, Sold at Tacoma Dodge in Tacoma, WA - VON is 092891
1970 Dodge Dart 4 Door, LH41C0R, SPD 212, Sold at Pauley Motors in Shelton, WA - VON is 093058

It looks like NW cars had at least two different pads of numbers to go from, Pauley Motors also had VON's of 093055, SPD B07, 071463, SPD B14, 093056, SPD 410, 093057, SPD 430, and 093059, SPD 525 which were all 1970 Dodge Dart's. Barry Washington has told me that Mr. Norm's also had two different runs of VON's as well.

If anybody has any dealer paperwork from a 1970 Dart with VON's that are close I'd love to see them. The key is knowing what dealer they came from.

So this Chally is probably from the same dealership.

here are some unique canadian y codes

Now I know why they call them spreadsheets....mine keep getting wider. I put a couple more columns in,one for dealer # and the other for dealer name...now they are 20 columns wide.Only problem is I have to backtrack and see if I have dealer info on the 7 or 8 thousand that are already on spreadsheets. We need more goodies like this invoice. It's absolutely loaded with info.
I wonder if Gloria is related to Frank

Heres a shot of my 69 Spreadsheet.You can sort and search by any column.The last two columns are Gate and Comments.Lots of blanks to fill in eh ?

Hmmm...I'm I know what your saying but I've never seen (69-71) a duplicate VON.I'm sure I have got some different model cars sold at the same dealership with consecutive VON's.

Here's the same month from '69 Lynch Rd. that tallzag & I have been working on. - we should put the two together.

Neat ! I've been putting fender tag codes in my comments section.There must be a way to link the database to all the fendertag jpegs on our hardrives right ?

Check these 3 out.All sold at the same dealership ...C3969 McCallum and Wilson.
1. Order # C31622 SPD A10 XS29U0G
2. Order # C31625 SPD A17 LH23C0R
3. Order # C31631 SPD B14 JS23V0B

The Dart:

The Challenger.
When you think about it ..there are over 1 million VON's available per year...999,999 numeric and then the alpha numeric....no need to duplicate.

tallzag,

You said:
"I believe that the regional office gave out the order pads to the dealers so if cars are from the same region they should have close VON's."

Dealers typically received their vehicle order forms from their sales reps and or from the regional/zone office.

The initial stock orders were taken at the dealer only new model shows held generally at the largest city in the region/zone. There were dealer only new car shows all over the country and they took place within the same week, one for each region/zone. When I was selling Dodges new from 1968-1974 you would sit down per your turn with your sales rep to place your orders for your first orders that would show up at the dealership DAYS before the unveiling of the new models at the dealership.

The dealership I workerd for was in northern Illinois about 150 miles from Chicago. The dealer new car show was held in Chicago. Mr. Norm's was in the same region/zone. Guess who ordered the most cars at the show?

This being said your first orders would be in numeric order for the specific models you ordered that day. There were different forms for different models. When you left the table you would leave with additional order forms to order more cars that would arrive after your initial ordered cars at the dealer show. These forms would be used for additional stock and for customer special orders after the new dealer showing. The dealers before and behind you that sat down to the table would have consecutive numbers to yours based on the different orders they made for the specific models.

When the dealer would run low on order forms if the sales rep was scheduled to be at the dealership they always had order forms. If you could not wait then you ordered them from the region/zone office. Of course these forms came from a printing company to the Corporate Office and they were disperst from there to both sales reps and mailed the region/zone offices all over the country and from there to the individual dealers.

You can see from info above that ther will be SOME grouping of consecutive numbers from the same dealers, same region/zone and then they could bounce anywhere in the country.

Does anyone have a '70s era ZONE list? How many were there?