What can I learn frmo a VIN number? I just got a new 1986 T/A and I know it originally came with acarb and a 305. but I want to know what gears came stock, if it came stock with front and back disc brakes, etc. how can I find this stuff out?
Thanks!!

 

The VIN won't tell you those kind of things. You need your RPO codes. Under the console lid, or in the hatch in the lock compartment. I believe there is a RPO decoder on the home page.

 

Those numbers are missing. The inside has been taken out of the lock box and the console. Where else can I find them?

 

OOH, that's a tricky one, if no one else helps out here, check the History/Restoration board.

 

Just a thought, but didnt GM stamp the passenger side axle tube on these cars. If you can get the letter/number code off of it, I can decode it for you. I believe it should be on the forward part of the tube close to the middle of the rear end. Im sure youll have to scrape off some rust and/or grease to see it. But its there.

 

With rear disc brakes in 1986, you probably have a Borg-Warner rear axle (nine bolt cover?). There were only two axle ratios available in that housing in 1986, IIRC.

 

I think I read somewhere that they put the RPO code stickers on the inside of the armrests on the doors.(I THINK ????)