VIN #s - What are your last 4?

I am curious as to if there are any earlier VIN's out there. I have a 91 Acura NSX and my last 4 are 0207.

1991 - last four are 0229

There is 0191 on Autotrader and it seems like a good number of 01XX's on Prime. I'm glad the first boatload has a lot of survivors in the world.

The lowest I've seen was on Peter Cunningham's race car.. I should have taken a picture but I remember 00XX.

It depends what country..
Europe is a 100000
Canada is a 800000
US is a 000000
so last four digits are not as significant.

Canadian NSX 800039

aren't the vins based on the factory build number? shouldn't the number you see on the drivers door sill be a unique number regardless of market?, more than happy to be corrected on this

1991 - 2120

0027

That's very interesting. So the cars may not be in sequence depending on the country they went to. Guess we would have to go by manufactured dates.

Larry B says mine is very early since it has an auxiliary engine compartment fan that was later discontinued because it never came on.

VIN is a unique no. and regardless of the market, you won't find exactly the same full VIN on another NSX in the world.
However, it isn't necessarily based on the factory build sequence.
For example, you could find 0001 in Japan and US but this doesn't mean they were both built at the same time in Japan.

VIN format is different depending on the local regulations.
Also, most of them uses different header code between NA1 and NA2.
Some markets use different code for Coupe/Targa, MT/AT, year model, etc.
Therefore, for example, you could have last 4 digits as 0001 on the same year model but different engine spec.

In Japan, any changes to the registered spec of certain categories result in different VIN header.
More than 15 header codes available just for NSX and each can have the same multiple (well over 4) digits so again, not that significant meanings.


Kaz

Thanks for the info. So mine is 000207 - a US Car.

Since 91 was the first year in the US that should be a good indicator of the build sequence, especially since the car was pretty standard at that time other than Automatic Trans.

91-1209

Here are the minimum VIN numbers for each year that have surfaced for sale in my NSX listing database. These are manual cars only because the autos started using their own numbering set in a year that I presently do not recall.

What span of years does that table cover? and is it US only or worldwide? I have an interesting observation ...does anyone else see it?

Doc, the dataset is NSX listings from June 2013 to present. There are some Canadian cars in the dataset but I filtered them out for this investigation, so all of the VINs in the table are US cars.

gotcha...4 years is a meaningful data set....so anyone else see what I do?

Mine is European and 000831

Kaz-kzukNA1 said:

VIN is a unique no. and regardless of the market, you won't find exactly the same full VIN on another NSX in the world.
However, it isn't necessarily based on the factory build sequence.
For example, you could find 0001 in Japan and US but this doesn't mean they were both built at the same time in Japan.

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Kaz

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thanks for that, my number on the door sill is the same as the last four digits on my JDM vin. In light of your comment should I now not claim the sill number is a build number and effectively there is no real significance to it?

If the definition of your wording is as follows,
then for 91-05 NSX, there was no publicly published build no. and VIN alone won't tell the exact factory manufacturing sequence. This is the same for any country spec or VIN format.

However, for security reason on JDM, you may want treating the numbers punched on the sill plate carefully.
Unlike other country spec, the numbers on there on JDM NSX shows almost all of the digits of the full VIN.
There are some people using VIN info for other purposes, unfortunately......

Honda is using in-house jig with specific font/style when punching these numbers on the sill plate to prevent someone copying it but these days, it’s not that difficult to copy the font any way.


Kaz

I have a Canadian model, Formula Red / Black interior that was built in August /90, s/n 800056. I assume that it was the 56th NSX built to Canadian specs (if they started at 80001).
According to Brian Long's book, the NSX was introduced in the states in August /90 and 1119 vehicles were sold in the USA in 1990. 156 were sold in Canada in 1990. They were producing 25 per day in the beginning and then 32 per day in the winter of 1990 and finally 50 per day in the summer of 1991, to meet the demand. 2548 units were built in 1990 and 8422 were built in 1991. Production tanked in 1992 (due to the global recession) to 1272 units and they never exceeded 1000 after that, with the exception of 1995 with 1515 units. On July 12, 2005 Honda announced that it would discontinue production of the NSX due to the extensive retooling necessary to meet stringent 2006 emissions and equipment regulations for the US market and production ended in September.

Us-1994-0010
Any info. on what number overall and color specific mine is for 94?

keynes said:

thanks for that, my number on the door sill is the same as the last four digits on my JDM vin. In light of your comment should I now not claim the sill number is a build number and effectively there is no real significance to it?

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If an early car (NA1-100XXXX), it is a build number for the Japanese market since the autos were also lumped into 100XXXX. There are a few different change points later on, but Japanese market cars from 1990-1993 followed this scheme.

Also interesting to note, as far as I can tell, production for the Japanese market began after North American production was well underway. The earliest Japanese NSXs I can find are August 1990 cars, while N.A. cars dip as early as June. My car is #382 , built 11/90 for the Japanese market. 11/90 for the US market equates to ~1100.

It's cool, but no real significance.

OKI-BOY said:

Us-1994-0010
Any info. on what number overall and color specific mine is for 94?

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OKI, there is a table of the 1994 US VIN color sequence here:
http://www.nsxprime.com/forum/showt...f-LESS-than-35?p=183609&viewfull=1#post183609

According to it, you have the 5th US 1994 Brooklands Green.

RacerXwing said:

OKI, there is a table of the 1994 US VIN color sequence here:
http://www.nsxprime.com/forum/showt...f-LESS-than-35?p=183609&viewfull=1#post183609

According to it, you have the 5th US 1994 Brooklands Green.

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So that would be the 3rd MT.
I was once told 1 knocked to 2 because the first was imported from japan to U.S.