Quote Originally Posted by Buddy Brown View Post
Hey Gil, I went to the link on your post and did not see a date for 1980. 1981 was the oldest I saw, did I miss something.
Reason I am asking is could the title the gentleman has is a salvage title. The state id # throws me. Just curious about something that far back.
Maybe the state assigns a title ID along with the actual VIN #. Didn't manufacturing start using 17 digit VIN # in the 60's of so.
Sorry about your tire, that could have been a real problem.
I was also curious about the state ID and did some research on this and found a web site that has listing for when buses were produced that may of be of interest for various manufactures:

It is: http://www.angelfire.com/ca/TORONTO/manufacturers.html Note you more and likely will have to use the internet history site to view this content.

In my case I was interested in Prevost buses produced in 1980 and got the following list of the motor homes:

[Private] Recker, O.E.S. JA80 Motor Home M104-2749-80
[Dealer] Liberty Coach Inc. MR80 Motor Home M104-2755-80
[Private] Beckley, G.W. MR80 Motor Home M104-2786-80
[Private] Miller, William & Elizabeth MY80 Motor Home M104-2796-80 35' Champion motor home
[Private] Custer, C.L. MY80 Motor Home M502-2806-80
[Private] Mandrell, Barbara MY80 Motor Home M104-2818-80 TN
[Private] Allavesen, Donald 1980 Motor Home M104-2826-80

I did find a data plate that matched up with this detail.



So no I don't think that I have a salvage title, probably just some weirdness of when it was registered in Oregon where I purchased it.