Serial Number

[JamesHorwatt]

Good Afternoon everyone, would this serial number "1115172" be 1971 and November.

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Thanks Jim

[KJDonovan]

Jim,

Yes that is the build date, but the bike was most likely built for the 72 model year.  Basically, anything with a build date beyond August was generally built for the next model year.

Thanks,

Kevin

[Paul Danik]

Jim,

   If you go to the serial number list using the link below and scroll down to the 111 build date you will see two others listed that may have rode down the assembly line with yours. 11151860 and 11152040.

http://www.pentonusa.org/prodyears/framenumber.asp

   One of the craziest frame number stories I ever heard was told to me by Jack Penton. If my facts are correct, Jack still has what I think was his last personal Penton race bike from days gone by. One day not to many years ago a friend of his Dad brought a similar machine to Pentonville for John to have and it was put away in one of their buildings.

   For some reason Jack got to wondering what the serial number was on the machine in the building compared to the number on his personal machine...turned out they are consecutive numbers.

 40 or more years ago they were built together, then they rode across the pond together in a shipping container and surely led much different lives, and by chance they are now back together.

 And they say it is amazing how animals can find their owners when they get separated....

Paul

[JamesHorwatt]

Paul, I made an error on the serial number. Its 11151872. I omitted the "8" so yes the 11151860 is just before mine. very cool...

Thanks Jim