07SGT4648 Posted December 4, 2007 Report Share Posted December 4, 2007 I was wondering if every shelby owner has matching numbers? I just bought my shelby gt my csm number is 4648 on the dash and the paperwork, however i opened the hood at the dealership and the csm number is 4646 :o I almost didnt buy it because i know how important numbers can be to the authenticity of the car. the dealer told me they would contact shelby to either get a new plate for the front and /or a letter stating that this was a factory mistake to add to my paperwork. Does anyone out there have my under the hood badging for csm 07sgt4648 If so i may have theirs for csm 07sgt4646 have not heard yet what shelby will do to resolve the problem yet. any ideas from anyone whether to just leave it alone and call this rare , or must i do everything possible to make these numbers match? :unsure: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SGT ShuttleGuy Posted December 4, 2007 Report Share Posted December 4, 2007 I was wondering if every shelby owner has matching numbers? I just bought my shelby gt my csm number is 4648 on the dash and the paperwork, however i opened the hood at the dealership and the csm number is 4646 :o I almost didnt buy it because i know how important numbers can be to the authenticity of the car. the dealer told me they would contact shelby to either get a new plate for the front and /or a letter stating that this was a factory mistake to add to my paperwork. Does anyone out there have my under the hood badging for csm 07sgt4648 If so i may have theirs for csm 07sgt4646 have not heard yet what shelby will do to resolve the problem yet. any ideas from anyone whether to just leave it alone and call this rare , or must i do everything possible to make these numbers match? :unsure: It would be nice if this was like stamp collecting or coin collecting. Then you'd have a rarity. The numbers are supposed to match. You should be able to check everything out against the VIN on the Shelby GT registry page: http://sgtregistry.shelbyautos.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stump_breaker Posted December 4, 2007 Report Share Posted December 4, 2007 I was wondering if every shelby owner has matching numbers? I just bought my shelby gt my csm number is 4648 on the dash and the paperwork, however i opened the hood at the dealership and the csm number is 4646 :o I almost didnt buy it because i know how important numbers can be to the authenticity of the car. the dealer told me they would contact shelby to either get a new plate for the front and /or a letter stating that this was a factory mistake to add to my paperwork. Does anyone out there have my under the hood badging for csm 07sgt4648 If so i may have theirs for csm 07sgt4646 have not heard yet what shelby will do to resolve the problem yet. any ideas from anyone whether to just leave it alone and call this rare , or must i do everything possible to make these numbers match? :unsure: I believe it's rare but a simple mistake when stamped at SAI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mywickedshelby Posted December 4, 2007 Report Share Posted December 4, 2007 It would be interesting to know if CSM4646 has 4648 under the hood and the 2 badges got mixed up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattInDetroit Posted December 4, 2007 Report Share Posted December 4, 2007 It would be interesting to know if CSM4646 has 4648 under the hood and the 2 got mixed up. No doubt. Personally I'd just use a crayon and make the "6" an "8" but then what do I know! <_< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
07SGT4648 Posted December 4, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 4, 2007 It would be interesting to know if CSM4646 has 4648 under the hood and the 2 badges got mixed up. The funny thing about this is, i just checked the registry and both numbers are assigned to my vin# I registered th 07sgt4648 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Budman340 Posted December 4, 2007 Report Share Posted December 4, 2007 I just heard about this today and I know that John Walker is already working on this for you. Bud Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
07SGT4648 Posted December 4, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 4, 2007 I just heard about this today and I know that John Walker is already working on this for you. Bud Great do you know any of the details? are they going to send me a new badge and a letter stating the mix up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattInDetroit Posted December 4, 2007 Report Share Posted December 4, 2007 Great do you know any of the details? are they going to send me a new badge and a letter stating the mix up? You forgot the crayon... <_< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdear Posted December 4, 2007 Report Share Posted December 4, 2007 hmmmmmm..i would say your car is worth more !!! :D :P :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark1 Posted December 5, 2007 Report Share Posted December 5, 2007 The funny thing about this is, i just checked the registry and both numbers are assigned to my vin# I registered th 07sgt4648 2 csm numbers assigned to one car... your Shelby must be worth twice that of everyone elses. How did you check the registry? I thought it was write-only. I didn't know one could view or search it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
66DNA Posted December 5, 2007 Report Share Posted December 5, 2007 YOU ARE THE LUCKY WINNER! An automatic upgrade to a 2008 Shelby GT kR500 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SWEDESHELBY1 Posted December 5, 2007 Report Share Posted December 5, 2007 I was wondering if every shelby owner has matching numbers? I just bought my shelby gt my csm number is 4648 on the dash and the paperwork, however i opened the hood at the dealership and the csm number is 4646 :o I almost didnt buy it because i know how important numbers can be to the authenticity of the car. the dealer told me they would contact shelby to either get a new plate for the front and /or a letter stating that this was a factory mistake to add to my paperwork. Does anyone out there have my under the hood badging for csm 07sgt4648 If so i may have theirs for csm 07sgt4646 have not heard yet what shelby will do to resolve the problem yet. any ideas from anyone whether to just leave it alone and call this rare , or must i do everything possible to make these numbers match? :unsure: It should be a rare car due to the mix up. I'd keep it that way but with registry papers to go along with it. Very unusual but a good unusual! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
North Shelby_merged Posted December 5, 2007 Report Share Posted December 5, 2007 The funny thing about this is, i just checked the registry and both numbers are assigned to my vin# I registered th 07sgt4648 Hmmm. I wonder if there really is a 4646. They may have made one less Shelby GT than they thought... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Webba Posted December 5, 2007 Report Share Posted December 5, 2007 I just heard about this today and I know that John Walker is already working on this for you. Bud What Bud is trying to tell you is John is sending you out the Shelby you are missing to go with the plate you have...no charge of course!LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeLa1Rob Posted December 5, 2007 Report Share Posted December 5, 2007 I wonder why Shelby now uses the same number for the dash plaque and the engine ID plate. I liked the seperate numbering systems they used to use. robin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mywickedshelby Posted December 5, 2007 Report Share Posted December 5, 2007 apparently so does the tech who did 4648's car! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shelbymotorsports Posted December 5, 2007 Report Share Posted December 5, 2007 I wonder why Shelby now uses the same number for the dash plaque and the engine ID plate. I liked the seperate numbering systems they used to use. robin Robin Although the Shelby Dodge's appeared to use separate numbering when comparing the dash to engine plaques in reality they were connected to each other. By that I mean there is a math formula that lets Shelby know the dash number from the engine number. Carroll was so concerned about fakes/clones of his Whittier cars that they did their best to make it as difficult as they could for anyone to just take say a dash plaque and create a Shelby clone/fake. This system was also to help the Shelby line workers get the right plaques on the right cars but because of human error this didn't always happen. The largest amount of errors (wrong plaques) occured in 1989 because for the first time Shelby Automobiles were producing two vehicles at the same time, the 1989 Shelby CSX and the 1989 Shelby Dakota. From the research I've done thru the years my best guess is that 10% to 25% of the 1989 production had the wrong engine plaque installed. IIRC even Carrolls CSX #001 has the wrong engine plaque on it. Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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