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Completed entering all the DON's and did a study of the Judges, some interesting tidbits...

Special DON Judges:
... 23% of the Judges (discounting illegible or blocked but not blank DON's) have the special short zone order numbers). This translates into about 1,600 Judges produced with this type of DON
... I was wrong about plants not having 2 cars with same special DON. I have 2 Atlanta Cars with order 00043 and two Baltimore cars with 59 (in both cases not the same dealer)
... For these reasons I suspect each of the 27 zone offices issued their own DON's. If they ordered 50-150 each averaging 60-70 each this would give you the 2,000 cars which my 24% isn't to far off from.
... The earliest invoice date with a special DON was jan 31st and the last was April 8th with the bulk being in Feb and first half of March
... lowest special DON is 17 and highest is 144 (bulk are between 20 and 80)
... All are pattern cars if you include M13 (3 speed manual) as pattern...
...16 M40 cars, 41 M20 and 3 M13
...10 M40's and 3 M20's had AC
...43 with black guts, 17 with parchment
...no export cars

Regular DON Judges:
... earliest US sold car is jan 31st (several earlier cars but they were all export)
... 59% are CR,
... first CR car with a Cordova is Feb 22, I have 5 other CR cars with Cordova before the first non CR car (Matador) on March 10th. sounds like non pattern but still CR was possible in second half of February but other colors were not released until March (delay due to stripes?)
... I can't find any pattern cars with normal DON's.

To Clarify my understanding of pattern car is as follows...
Hardtops only all with CR (no Vinyl top), black or parchment buckets with the following options...
All Pattern cars had the following 10 options...Judge, PDB, power steering, console, rallye gauges with clock, AM radio, deluxe belts with front shoulder, soft ray (all windows), remote mirror and Safe-T-Track (HD or regular duty if AC)
Pattern cars could have the M13 (no charge), the M20 or the M40.
Hood tach was present on all cars except if equipped with M40
AC was optional on all transmissions and it changed the HD STT to regular duty due to 3.23 axle ratio
all pattern cars will have 11, 12 or 13 options