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Do any of you all's titles give the original title date? My Oklahoma title for my Evansville 46 Special De Luxe, SN 20182030, gives November 4, 1946 as the "date first sold". I'm curious if anyone has a 46 Evansville De Luxe for which the title gives that information. My brother used to have the shell of one of these (it had been used as river bank erosion control), and its SN was 22046700, with the SN plate on the right A pillar, like the 42's. (It was already missing the front clip, both rear fenders, and nearly all of the interior, so I thought at first that it was a 42 model.) I do have some random parts from it, and there are differences between parts from that car and my Evansville 46 Special De Luxe. I know that there were various differences between the two models, but one difference that surprises me is that the Special De Luxe interior light lens is secured in the light bezel via rolled "clips" in the inside of the bezel, while the De Luxe lens was leaded in. It is not a later repair, either, because the lens bezel does not have any remnant of the rolled clips. Maybe my Special De Luxe was just built a lot later than the De Luxe, so if there is any comparative information on that, I would also find that interesting, especially I've never seen another P15 with the SN plate on the Right A pillar. It would also be interesting to compare original sale dates with anyone who has that information for their Evansville 46, especially if it has an SN close to mine, and was sold at some location perhaps much closer to Evansville (as opposed to relatively far-away Oklahoma). Unfortunately I don't know in what part of Oklahoma my car was originally sold, and it is possible that if a car was ever re-titled in another state, that this information would not be carried over. I know that I'll have to surrender my Oklahoma title when I title the car here in Ohio, and I don't know if they will include this information on the new title. I just think it is an interesting bit of information to know.