My '57 Mark II came titled as a 1956 Lincoln Continental so I put together a PDF for the UT DMV to document that it was a 1957 Continental (not a Lincoln).
Somewhere in this forum is this chart. I couldn't find it right off but I saved it. It shows that the L in C56L3418 stands for the production month of October (1956). It's based on page 267 of the Continental Mark II Technical Data manual (shop manual). Page 266 decodes the VIN number to explain the month code portion. I have 3446, also built in October and the original invoice shows it went to the car expo in NY where the new 57 models were being unveiled.
I have also attached the page from my PDF I created for the DMV as mentioned above that clarifies a little more about the 56/57 differentiation, but the law suit attachment in a previous post in this thread is pretty definitive.
ProductionCodes4Dates_AllYears.jpg
PDF page 7:
https://tluke.com/pdfs/MarkII_57andN...ntation-p7.pdf
I actually never needed the PDF. My DVM has new software that automatically spits out 1957 Continental Mark II when the VIN is put in
Terry
Last edited by tluke; 12-26-2022 at 02:47 PM.
Reason: error corrected in month
Terry Luke
C56L3446
55 Cadillac Series 75
86 Ford F250
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