In the grand scheme of production at St. Louis, were the bodies earmarked from their production point (elsewhere) to meet a specific chassis and various options on the final line OR were all the various parts such as body, chassis, engines, etc. pulled from pool supplies according to the "build sheet" and then serialized at the completion of the various sub-assemblies???
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Re: Body Meets Chassis
The green chalk marked "build" numbers indicate that various parts were tracked and designed to meet up, at least within the body. A search of archives will
tell you more about it. I'm sure somebody that knows more about the factory
procedures can tell us how soon the frame and body were matched.
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Numbers were in crayon( mine are green) and it was the job number.
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Re: Body Meets Chassis
Tom -
As soon as a body started in the Body Shop, that car was unique and specific to the dealer order, and its identity and detail specifications were fixed from that point on all the way through the assembly system (except for the VIN number, which was assigned and installed when the painted body began its trip down the Trim Line (there was no generic "pool" of bodies). The same was true of the A.O. Smith-built C2 bodies that arrived by rail - each was built to the specifications of a dealer order. There will be an article in the next issue of the "Restorer" that details exactly how all this worked, and the system and paperwork that supported the in-plant production system.Comment
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Re: Body Meets Chassis--THANKS*NM* *NM*
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