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[QUOTE=Bet Winner]Please look at your PHS documentation and find "Date Shipped" near the bottom of the sheet. You could list the early shipping dates for us. I'm not sure what date you have used above. If you have listed shipping dates, the two January dates would be earlier than I guessed. If you have any PHS sheets with a Feb. 5 1969 shipping date or earlier, please post a picture of them. Thanks!

i am indeed using the shipping date but your post encouraged me to look a bit deeper into the sources of my info: most of the PHS's i have are digital format from ebay or elsewhere on the net and some of them are only partial or very difficult to read, the info i posted earlier was from an excel spread sheet i have built up over the last year or so.

i rechecked the PHS's themselves that i had dated before feb 5th and there are some issues:

the jan 11th car from the atlanta plant was actually march 11th not january
(this PHS had the last part of the vin blocked out which made it harder to double check the validity of the blurry ship date) making my earliest atlanta car now feb 18th
the Framingham car looks to be right and the sequential VIN seems right for the date but it is hard to be certain due to the particularily poor quality of this image (image is too large to post to forum, but i would like other opinions, i could e-mail it to anyone interested, PM me)

i double checked the rest (which are all after the 5th of feb anyhow) and found no other items that needed correcting.

sounds like you may be right about the feb 5th, it pays to double check!