The WS4 was not used by Van Nuys. Norwood did use the WS4 in '70-73 (& later years).
Production at Van Nuys started 01B, making Ymans TA built in the 8th week of production, which, by simple math should make his Body Number much larger. But simple math doesn't give us an accurate picture, because the initial production ramped up slowly in January & February. Remember I said "maximum production" was about 750 units per day. From my data, it appears obvious that most days production totals were significantly less than that. Also remember, that I said the Fisher Body Number as no almost no correlation to sequential production. A fictitious example would be; BL01234 could have been final assembled say Feb. 20th, while BL01000 could have been built Feb. 21st.
Best thing to remember about production & numbering,.....these cars were not built in any exact numerical sequence by VIN or by Fisher Body Number.
I don't have any documentation on whether Trim Tags characters were stamped in unison, or at different stations, other than the basic tags had the PNT, TRM, BDY, etc., & the Federal required info at the bottom, pre-stamped. And yes, mistakes were made in this stamped info too. They were just done by guys working to make a living, & sometimes they just didn't get it right. Like the Trim Tag from a '71 Esprit that has 22587 for the Model Number, rather than the 22487 it should have had.
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