"Cool" serial numbers?

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Does anyone here have an interesting or cool serial number?

I dont, although it would be really interesting to have a gun (Glock especially) with a serial number BAD455 (bad as$). :)

Anyone have anything they would want to share?

Thanks!
 
not in a gun, but when I bought my then new red z71 4x4, fully loaded. the first digits of the vin # are "TOY"
 
Our dept issued Glock 35 is three letters-badge number-US. "AbcXXXUs". Everybody got their own badge number when they were first issued, if you stuck around, you still have it, since people have come and gone, its not an absolute anymore.

I have a NAA Guardian, special ordered, that has my last name as the serial number.
 
I used to have a Glock 19 with the serial number FXN911.

The last three guns I've purchased have triple digits at the end of their serial numbers...a Beretta 9000S with a 666 as the last three, a S&W 642 with 888 as the last three, and a S&W 65LS with 333 as the last three digits. How odd is that?
 
Vanity S/N

When I was looking for a pocket pistol a couple months ago, I ran across a company (I forget who) that would sell you a vanity S/N.
 
SVI offers custom serial numbers.

The last one I got was "DEATH&TAXES" :D
 
not in a gun, but when I bought my then new red z71 4x4, fully loaded. the first digits of the vin # are "TOY"

Really? :scrutiny: VINs don't have the letter "O". And the first three digits of a VIN indicate where the vehicle was built, by who, and what make. And in GMs codes, its 1 (US), 2 (Canada), or 3 (Mexico). Then a "G" indicating General Motors, then a letter designating code make, in this case it is C or T for Chevy or GMC truck.

The only "T" in that sequence is the third digit, indicating a GMC truck but the next two digits which would be "O" and "Y" do not exist in GMs designators, that is until 2000 when "Y" was used to designate a model year 2000, and at that, that designator is only used as a 10th digit. It is possible to have "TOY", but not until the 8th, 9th and 10th numbers. Which would indicate a 4.8L engine, check digit ZERO, and year model 2000. Not the first digits of the VIN, are they? And the only thing remotely close to looking like "TOY" in the first digits would be a VIN with the third slot indicating a GMC truck ("T"), GVWR of 4001-5k ("C") or GVWR of 5001-6k ("D"), then conventional cab 4x4 (V) or small conventional cab 4x4 ("T").

So I guess if you really looked fast enough at a dirty metal VIN tag in your windshield dash, you can imagine a GM VIN starting with the word "TOY" :uhoh:

As for a cool or wierd VIN, the only thing we have now is our Springfield GI starts with WW2xxx...
 
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Well, it wouldn't be cool to most people, but i tried for a little while to get a 25th anniversary Kimber (1979-2004) with my birthday in the serial number, since I was born in '79. I sent out a bunch of emails and the closest I came was withing a few days.

I did shoot a buddy's Colt python once with XXX00357, which I thought was kind of neat (and he hadn't noticed until I pointed it out).

waterhouse
 
For over 20 years my dad was Scout Master of Troop 95. I bought him a Winchester Boy Scout 9422 and the serial number was 96.
 
My S&W 686 SN ended with 357X. I bought it used and when I called S&W to determine the production date, the customer service guy I spoke with commented that it was very cool to have a 686 with 357 in the SN.
 
North American Arms lets you choose a vanity serial number.

Here's mine:

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pax
 
My CZ 40P has a serial number that purely by chance reads RSA000XX

RSA is my initials
and the XX is the year I graduated high school.
 
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