Enter the 17-character VIN of your Panoz to see the factory basics. Free, with no registration.
Look on the dashboard, the driver's door frame or in the registration document.
Type all 17 characters. The letters I, O and Q are never used in a VIN.
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Enter a 17-character VIN and the Panoz decoder reads the manufacturer, the model year and the country of manufacture from the code itself. Our data for the brand covers 3 models, among them the Abruzzi, the AIV Roadster and the Esperante, with model years from 1996 to 2011 and the body styles Roadster and Convertible.
A VIN holds no accident entries, mileage readings, theft records or owner changes. That information comes from a paid vehicle history report, while the decoder here stays free and needs no registration.
Pick a Panoz model to see how its VIN works.
Every VIN for a car built since 1981 has 17 characters, and the letters I, O and Q are never used. The first three characters are the WMI, which names the manufacturer. Characters 4 to 8 describe the vehicle, character 9 is a check digit, character 10 gives the model year, character 11 the plant, and characters 12 to 17 are the serial number.
For Panoz we currently have no WMI codes mapped, so we cannot list any first-three-character examples or countries for the brand. Our list is not complete, and a VIN that the decoder cannot match to the brand says something about our data, not about the car. The check digit is required in North America, while many European VINs fill that position differently.
The model year is the easiest part to check by hand. Our version data runs from 1996 to 2011, and in that range a T in position 10 stands for 1996, a 1 for 2001, an A for 2010 and a B for 2011.
Every VIN has six parts. This is what each of them means.
| Part | Characters | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| WMI | 1 to 3 | World manufacturer identifier: who built the vehicle and where |
| VDS | 4 to 8 | Vehicle descriptor: model, body type and engine, as set by the manufacturer |
| Check digit | 9 | Control value that helps confirm the VIN is valid |
| Model year | 10 | Code for the model year |
| Plant | 11 | Code for the assembly plant |
| Serial | 12 to 17 | Production sequence number of this vehicle |
On the driver's side, visible through the windshield.
On a sticker on the door frame or the edge of the door.
Printed in the vehicle registration or title.
Stamped on the firewall or the frame on many models.
A VIN is built from six parts, and each one says something about the vehicle. Our guides explain how to read it and what it can and cannot tell you.
Enter the 17-character VIN and see the factory basics in seconds.
On most cars it is stamped on a plate near the base of the windscreen or on a door pillar, and it is also printed in the registration papers. On a roadster or convertible, check that the number on the car matches the paperwork character by character.
The first three characters are the WMI, which identifies the manufacturer. We have no WMI codes mapped to Panoz at the moment, so the decoder may not link a given VIN to the brand by those characters alone.
Look at the tenth character. Within the 1996 to 2011 range of our data, T means 1996, 1 means 2001, A means 2010 and B means 2011.
It reads only the VIN, so it cannot show accidents, mileage, theft or previous owners. The VIN simply does not contain that information.
Compare the VIN on the car with the one in the documents and make sure the model year character fits the year the seller states. Then inspect the car in person, including the body and the service records, since a decoder result only confirms what is encoded in the number.