Quote Originally Posted by dr914 View Post
What are the possibilities that there are two albert blue 1818 5 speed coupes that close in line exported to the US?
there is a high probability that there were two albert blue cars close in line - as they painted them in batches. The possibility that they both went to the USA is less but still high as the US accounted for a large percentage of the sales. Even in the deliveries to a small market like Australia there were numerous examples of cars with close to sequential vin numbers being imported (although as we are a RHD country and RHD cars tended to be made in batches as well that was one factor in them often being close in vin number) Also as the production number is the start of the manufacturing process (when the order to produce the car is sent to the production line) it is quite possible that they processed a batch of USA ordered cars in sequence which would be sequential production numbers but not necessarily sequential vin numbers. Have a look at that second list above and you will see sequential production (and vin) numbers going to the one major distributor - ie 114 Otto Glockler Frankfurt