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White99z
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 Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 4:03 pm Post subject: Deciphering my M-Code is giving me a headache! |
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After reading the M Code page, I am still having trouble deciphering what my bus originally was when it came out of the factory. To top that off, I was washing my bus today and found some white paint underneath what I thought was the original green! Is it originally green? Is it a true Sundial camper?
Here are the codes:
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425 002 043
UA 2112 131383 5165689 |
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White99z
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sled
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according to your m-code plate, your panel was all pearl white with mesh grey upholstry.
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dieseldoc
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| Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 5:28 pm Post subject: Re: Deciphering my M-Code is giving me a headache! |
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| White99z wrote: |
Here are the codes:
14 6
425 002 043
UA 2112 131383 5165689 |
The way I see it:
June 6 1965
425=US export package w/seat belts?
002 = sealed beam headlights preheat delete
043 = Preparation for Swiss License (dont know what that entails)
UA = Los A, CA
211 is a Panel Van Lft drive Rt Cargo Doors
2 Nitro Lacquer Finish
13 Pearl White Upper and Lower (1313)
83 Mesh Grey Uphostery
The rest is your Production number 5= 1965 165689 |
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///Mink
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| Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 5:41 pm Post subject: Re: Deciphering my M-Code is giving me a headache! |
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| White99z wrote: |
Is it a true Sundial camper?
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That's impossible to tell from the M-codes. The only officially sanctioned campers were Westfalias, and therefore the only ones that will have an M-code. |
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suebug
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| Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 5:42 pm Post subject: Re: Deciphering my M-Code is giving me a headache! |
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| dieseldoc wrote: |
| White99z wrote: |
Here are the codes:
14 6
425 002 043
UA 2112 131383 5165689 |
The way I see it:
June 6 1965
425=US export package w/seat belts?
002 = sealed beam headlights preheat delete
043 = Preparation for Swiss License (dont know what that entails)
UA = Los A, CA
211 is a Panel Van Lft drive Rt Cargo Doors
2 Nitro Lacquer Finish
13 Pearl White Upper and Lower (1313)
83 Mesh Grey Uphostery |
My '66 Sundial is exactly the same with the above numbers. Your bus and my bus and other Sundials are essentially panel buses that didn't become Sundials until they got to Riverside, California and were turned into campers there. Or as they're also called, OTW.
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VolksFire
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OTW?
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obus 
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suebug
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| obus wrote: |
| other than westfalia ????? |
Yep. The poor relation. But hey, I'm loving my Sundial.
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Birdmanhere
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| Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 8:40 am Post subject: Re: Deciphering my M-Code is giving me a headache! |
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| suebug wrote: |
| dieseldoc wrote: |
| White99z wrote: |
Here are the codes:
14 6
425 002 043
UA 2112 131383 5165689 |
The way I see it:
June 6 1965
425=US export package w/seat belts?
002 = sealed beam headlights preheat delete
043 = Preparation for Swiss License (dont know what that entails)
UA = Los A, CA
211 is a Panel Van Lft drive Rt Cargo Doors
2 Nitro Lacquer Finish
13 Pearl White Upper and Lower (1313)
83 Mesh Grey Uphostery |
My '66 Sundial is exactly the same with the above numbers. Your bus and my bus and other Sundials are essentially panel buses that didn't become Sundials until they got to Riverside, California and were turned into campers there. Or as they're also called, OTW. |
My Sundial has the exact same m-codes and colors too, but it is an Oct 65,
what is with the swiss preparation code?
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White99z
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| Thanks for all the help! Since it was originally pearl white... does this mean Sundial probably painted it or does it mean that someone else probably painted it? I can see some pearl white under there and it looks to be in good shape! Maybe someday I will uncover it. Until then, I will rock the velvet green. |
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suebug
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| Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 9:06 am Post subject: |
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It was painted pearl white at the factory, hence the M-code designation for 1313, pearl white upper, pearl white lower.
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White99z
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| Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 9:08 am Post subject: |
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| suebug wrote: |
| It was painted pearl white at the factory, hence the M-code designation for 1313, pearl white upper, pearl white lower. |
OK! That's what I thought. Whoever painted it really took the time to paint it. The interior metal is painted too... even under all the camping stuff. Maybe it wasn't originally a sundial camper, although it sure as hell looks like one to me. Especially with its windows. It also has all of the sundial plates on the outside. Who knows?!? I still love the thing. Camped out in it for the first time last night... in my driveway  |
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suebug
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Check out this site for a semi-definitive answer about your bus. (Lifted from theSamba "How to ID your camper")
www.sundial-camper.com
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