Help me identify the year of my Shasta

I remember your original post. Great looking Shasta and you are doing an awesome rebuild.

Here is what I posted:

Based on the partial vin#, this is what I have come up with. Your Shasta 1500's partially complete vin# would be FS27997-PA?, which it was given in early 1965. At the time, Shasta 18' Super's, 1400's, 1500's, Compact's, an Astroflyte and a few Shasta Twenty's were being created. If I had to guess, I would say that these were being special ordered. Most of the time, each Shasta plant would do runs of certain models and then move on to the next model and so on. This is the beauty of the Shasta Database, is that production patterns are visible.

Each Shasta manufacturing plant used consecutive numbers and letters. Each prefix letter or in California's case, two prefix letters, show what City and State they were produced.

Once a list of vin#'s has been established, I can usually figure the rest out, but some exceptions are there. As in your Shasta's case, which are the last 4 digits. The California plants would sometimes stamp the vin# into an information plate, which was attached to the curbside lower front corner. However, the 2 sets of letters would not be present.


Hope this helps.
Ross

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Welcome to the vintage trailer madness!

Your Shasta Astrodome was born in 1963 in Northridge, California (as you mentioned), probably mid year. As for the PA1971.....this is interesting.....I do see ALL of the Astrodome's from the Northridge plant have the same PA1971, as the end of the vin#. However, so do a few of the Airflyte's and 16SC's. I wish I could have a good answer for you, but I don't......sorry. As I collect more Shasta vin#'s, maybe a stronger pattern will start to show itself.

Hope this helps,
Ross

bill62

Your Shasta Airflyte chassis was actually built and given it's vin# in 1961, probably in the beginning of the last quarter of 1961, in Goshen, Indiana. Then completed and sold in 1962.

Hope this helps.
Ross