Deciphering the HIN

hiyato

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Jun 7, 2023
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maybe 1979 sea ray 197
Engines
188 mercruiser
Can anyone help me decipher my HIN. I recently bought a sea ray, and the guy i bought it from says its a 1979 but i looked for hours and couldn't find one that looked like mine, thanks.
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The 0976 is the production date. 09 is the month and the 76 is the model year.

SER = Sea Ray Boats (In Business)
6373M = Boat Serial Number
09 = Month of Manufacture September
76 = Production Year 1976

Great site for decoding HID's: https://hindecoder.com/
 
the format was standardized in 1984, so you are the older format.
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So Sea Ray serial # 6373M Mfr Date Sept 1976

Sea Ray also added their own internal numbers for hulls that's the second part 19710067-7
Which should indicate model 197 (matches)
10067 this is just a sequential number the plant used for ALL hulls manufactured at that plant, so your hull was the 10,067th hull produced in 1976 at that plant. -7 this hull for model year 1977.
Model year runs August thru July
 

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