Is my 79 CJ5 a Silver Anniversary Edition

[Trigger]

I've been researching whether or not my '79 CJ5 is a silver annivesary edition or not. The color was originally silver, and I have several things that seem to point towards a Silver Anniversary . The radiator has the code/year on the top, the firewall plate seems to have all of the correct codes, and the VIN# ends correctly. Here is what my firewall plate says:

J197120 5-31B
8C 1CS CC
J9F83AH845213 9300

Everything seems to add up to silver anniverary except the 9300 at the end of the last line. Supposedly that is what the wheel base is, but it is clearly a 5 (I measured wheel base of 83), and the 83 in the VIN# also suggests the same.

The 1CS CC suggests it was a Silver Anniversary package, and it also has a clock/tachometer which is one of the standard options. Any ideas? The jeep was repainted before I bought it, so some of the other identifying stickers no longer exist. I am planning a restore, but wasn't planning on restoring to the silver package, but if I have one of the Limited editions, I may change my mind.....

 

[PaRenegade]

I'm pretty sure the vin has no indication of any trim package. But not sure what all the other numbers on the firewall tag indicate, other than the paint code. I've never seen any explanations for those firewall tags. Do you have any links to something that explains them? I've looked in 2 books I have, one is a collectors book, and didn't see anything other than some options it included.

 

[Trigger]

There is a post on this forum somewhere that explains some of the codes. Check out silveranniversarycj5.com also

 

[Trigger]

Check out this link

http://www.jeep-cj.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6518

 

[Tin Medic]

Your seat code "1CS CC" is for a Silver Anniverary model.

 

[Trigger]

Your seat code "1CS CC" is for a Silver Anniverary model.

I am pretty sure I have one at this point. I don't have the original seats though. I wonder why I have the 9300 after my VIN#? Thinking it could have been I typo.

 

[thiswontbetooexpensive]

I found this article the other day and found it interesting.

Source is AMC_VIN_charts

"And finally....a few words from actual Kenosha assembly line workers: "I will also tell you this...Rich (a friend) worked the broadcast machine (actually a vintage form of telegraph) and I wouldn't put too much stake in vin numbers as AMC got sloppy with them. I was relief person for the i-panel job where I riveted the tags to the crash panels and I know firsthand they were not in sequence and most of the time, the tag was changed to match the car on the line as it was too much effort to change the sequence rather than put the car in the repair hole at the end of the line. As an aside, When Larry Tracy worked the I-panel assembly job, and had to type the tags out, he never got them correct! If he was off a number or letter, oh well. Most of the time, the repairmen in the hole would scratch with a punch to make it resemble what it was supposed to be rather than drop the panel entirely and put the proper options on the car, or we would call Rich and he would make a special broadcast for the car we built that time. I know this sounds hard to believe, but it it was standard behavior and accepted by all levels of management......the numbers matched the broadcast sheet by the time the car was done, but most of the time, the broadcast sheet and the car were not what they had originally been typed up to be in the planning dept! We all got lectured repeatedly on why the gov't had to 'have this done right' with the tags for ID purposes, but it went the way of the same lectures of "why do you have a brown stripe on one side of this Jav and a gold one on the other?" lectures. (answer - what's the dif? You can only see one side of the car at a time)"

Explains a lot to me!

 

[Trigger]

I found this article the other day and found it interesting.

Source is AMC_VIN_charts

"And finally....a few words from actual Kenosha assembly line workers: "I will also tell you this...Rich (a friend) worked the broadcast machine (actually a vintage form of telegraph) and I wouldn't put too much stake in vin numbers as AMC got sloppy with them. I was relief person for the i-panel job where I riveted the tags to the crash panels and I know firsthand they were not in sequence and most of the time, the tag was changed to match the car on the line as it was too much effort to change the sequence rather than put the car in the repair hole at the end of the line. As an aside, When Larry Tracy worked the I-panel assembly job, and had to type the tags out, he never got them correct! If he was off a number or letter, oh well. Most of the time, the repairmen in the hole would scratch with a punch to make it resemble what it was supposed to be rather than drop the panel entirely and put the proper options on the car, or we would call Rich and he would make a special broadcast for the car we built that time. I know this sounds hard to believe, but it it was standard behavior and accepted by all levels of management......the numbers matched the broadcast sheet by the time the car was done, but most of the time, the broadcast sheet and the car were not what they had originally been typed up to be in the planning dept! We all got lectured repeatedly on why the gov't had to 'have this done right' with the tags for ID purposes, but it went the way of the same lectures of "why do you have a brown stripe on one side of this Jav and a gold one on the other?" lectures. (answer - what's the dif? You can only see one side of the car at a time)"

Explains a lot to me!

Thanks, that is very interesting....explains the 9300 that should have been an 8300.