{"id":5,"date":"2009-07-14T23:57:19","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T06:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elliottjohnson.net\/blog\/?p=5"},"modified":"2009-07-15T00:01:48","modified_gmt":"2009-07-15T07:01:48","slug":"inital-post-and-m-plate-decoding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/elliottjohnson.net\/blog\/inital-post-and-m-plate-decoding\/","title":{"rendered":"Inital Post and M-Plate decoding."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve created this blog to better track my progress in restoring my car.\u00a0 Part of the value of something is the context and history surrounding it.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been taking paper notes of the two days I&#8217;ve spent working on it so far and will be transfering those and future notes here.<\/p>\n<p>A few minutes ago I was decoding the M Plate that has basic info about the car.\u00a0 The top line shows the day, month, and last digit of the year of production (in this case 09\/20\/1962).\u00a0 The next line shows the buses two m-codes that can be decoded via this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesamba.com\/vw\/archives\/info\/mcodest2.php\">table<\/a>.\u00a0 The bottom line shows that the import location was UF, which is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baronvonkronken.com\/busguide=exportcodes.htm\">San Francisco<\/a>.\u00a0 The &#8220;211&#8221; indicates that it&#8217;s a Type 2 VW Panel Bus with cargo doors on the passenger side.\u00a0 The word &#8220;Blue&#8221; refers to the Dove blue color of the bus and the last number 1002394 indicates that it was the 1,002,394th bus VW produced.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6\" style=\"width: 511px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6\" title=\"m-plate\" src=\"http:\/\/elliottjohnson.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/m-plate.jpg\" alt=\"The M-Plate from my 1963 Volkswagen Panel Bus\" width=\"501\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"http:\/\/elliottjohnson.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/m-plate.jpg 501w, http:\/\/elliottjohnson.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/m-plate-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 501px) 100vw, 501px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The M-Plate from my 1963 Volkswagen Panel Bus<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A big thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baronvonkronken.com\">Matt Lancaster<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/thesamba.com\/vw\/archives\/info\/mcodest2.php\">The Samba<\/a> for posting these lists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting up this blog by decoding the M-Plate that is riveted to the bulkhead (the metal separator) behind the front passenger seat. <a href=\"http:\/\/elliottjohnson.net\/blog\/inital-post-and-m-plate-decoding\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mybus","tag-1963-vw-panel-bus","tag-m-plate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/elliottjohnson.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/elliottjohnson.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/elliottjohnson.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elliottjohnson.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elliottjohnson.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/elliottjohnson.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12,"href":"http:\/\/elliottjohnson.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/elliottjohnson.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elliottjohnson.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elliottjohnson.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}