Just beginning a complete body off on a recent purchase of a 70 convertible that's almost too far gone. It qualifies for a barn find as it was sadly found outside and behind the barn. Last night I anxiously removed the gas tank for the first time ever and found the build sheet as hoped. It had folded over onto itself (only being glued in the center portion) and isn't in bad shape after all these years. My question relates to the job number or hand written number on the sheet - mine has two and they're different. There is one written in the usual place on the right side just below the heavy black line (439) with the other written near the top (311) just left of the words "Corvette Order Copy". I have found the 311 written in crayon on the back side of the convertible top storage compartment. Both numbers on the sheet appear to have been written by the same person - at least the 3's look the same. Anyone else have similar knowledge or know what the other number (439) might be?
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Re: 1970 Tank sticker job number(s)
I would guess your VIN# ends at about 44x or 94x......
This number your are talking about was close to the last 3 digits of the VIN#. If the VIN last 3 digits are over 500 then the number starts over. It appears these numbers were assigned in batches of 500. -
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You are spot on - my VIN ends in 439 which is what's on the tank sticker. I didn't pick up on it so thank you. I also have a 71 and a 67 both with tank stickers and neither have their VIN's marked on the build sheet.Comment
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Unusual that no penciled number appears on the build sheets of your other cars...... Have these been restored(?) and are the stickers original?Comment
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My 71 build sheet has 441 pencil/written on it with the car's VIN being 7941 so that one is exactly 500 different. The 67 is close but not exact with the pencil/written number being 153 for a VIN of 5656. Are you saying the number should be the same on the sticker as the VIN, or 500 off, or close to that? I also has the POP for the 67 and it matches the VIN of 5656. So I'm hoping you tell me that the 153 although not being 156 is okay. I believe the 67 is close to one you own or used to own.Comment
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I believe we misunderstood each other. Your post stated there were no VIN's marked on either build sheet, which I found unusual. Your latest post says there are numbers penciled on the sheets. I realize there are no complete VIN# on build sheets of this era.... but usually a penciled number that is close to the last digits of the VIN, as discussed earlier.
The penciled numbers that you indicated to be on the build sheets, 441 and 153 respectively, are fine.
For some unknown reason to me, in 1967 the numbers seem to be off by a couple of digits....... In some instances more than a couple of digits.
My own 67 is off by 1 digit + 500. My penciled number is 269 while my actual VIN ends in 770.Comment
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Very informative - thank you for the response(s).Comment
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Stephen, nice. I took my vin# xxxx9643 and took a look at the tank sticker which has a #130 on it. based on your formula I'm about 13 units off.Jack Corso
1972 Elkhart Green LT-1 Coupe 43,200 miles
Top Flight 1994, 2018 & 2021Comment
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Re: 1970 Tank sticker job number(s)
Here is my '67 tank sheet "job" number of 30 and my VIN is #22526. PT
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I recollect John Hinckley commented on this (job number to VIN number correlation) in a prior post. If I can recite properly...
(1) Yes, job numbers ran to 500 and then rolled over to start again.
(2) The reason for job numbers was to identify the particular 'build' before its VIN tag was assigned to it.
(3) In a 'pure' world, there should be correlation between the last digits of the VIN and the job number, but the factory wasn't 'pure'...
(4) For the most part, things rolled along pretty smoothly, but the paint shop was the exception...
(5) A given body might cycle through the shop with multiple write-ups and subsequent touch up repairs. And, that would break the correlation aspect of job # to VIN...Comment
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My March 30th Vin is 194377S115180 the penciled number on the tank sticker is 178. DaleComment
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Here is a link to a past post that describes the correlation of the number on the tank sheet to the vin number:
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