Factory ID of Buyer

[Steven B.]

What documents did the factory (if any) and dealer have that identified a buyer who ordered a car?

Looking back on some of the documentation I have when I ordered my '77 I notice the Dealer Copy (6 1/2" X 9 3/8") listing the car VIN, dealer, options, MSRP, Dealer Order No., etc. Included in hand printed black ink is:

G-173

N047 - U508

Firestone

Brohard

2848



Also of interest: included taped to my ignition shielding (IIRC) is a heavy paper tag (5 5/8" X 3 3/8") titled:

V-8 Engine
Parts Check
Date 10 22 76

This tag includes 21 engine items, 18 checked off in black ink


Sorry I cannot post pictures. My scanner scans no more.


Steve

[Terry M.]

Re: Factory ID of Buyer

What documents did the factory (if any) and dealer have that identified a buyer who ordered a car?

Looking back on some of the documentation I have when I ordered my '77 I notice the Dealer Copy (6 1/2" X 9 3/8") listing the car VIN, dealer, options, MSRP, Dealer Order No., etc. Included in hand printed black ink is:

G-173

N047 - U508

Firestone

Brohard

2848



Also of interest: included taped to my ignition shielding (IIRC) is a heavy paper tag (5 5/8" X 3 3/8") titled:

V-8 Engine
Parts Check
Date 10 22 76

This tag includes 21 engine items, 18 checked off in black ink


Sorry I cannot post pictures. My scanner scans no more.


Steve

My guess is the second line is your key codes. Someone will be visiting you shortly.

I suppose you have Firestone tires.

[Steven B.]

Re: Factory ID of Buyer

My guess is the second line is your key codes. Someone will be visiting you shortly.

I suppose you have Firestone tires.

Terry, I still have the Firestones, all 5 of them. Each with steel belts sticking through the tires.

And as for my key codes, I live in Texas and there is this law that allows us to shoot people on our property just cause they need shootin'.


Thanks!

Steve

[Dick W.]

Re: Factory ID of Buyer

And as for my key codes, I live in Texas and there is this law that allows us to shoot people on our property just cause they need shootin'.


Thanks!

Steve

Just wait until it gets dark

[Steven B.]

Re: Factory ID of Buyer

Just wait until it gets dark

Dick, that is when my dogs take over. If they don't stop the bad guys then I turn my wife loose on them and it gets nasty then. She is mean, real mean.

[Duke W.]

Re: Factory ID of Buyer

I don't think the plant knew the name of a special order retail customer unless that customer was set up to take plant delivery. The plant's "customer" was always the dealer and the dealer handled the transaction with the retail customer.

The dealer, of course, knew the name of the customer associated with any dealer order that was a customer special order.

Duke

[Ralph S.]

Re: Factory ID of Buyer

I have the tank sticker from my 69 that i bought new, it was a special trim/color order. it has numbers in the COPO box and it has my last name printed below the options.

[Steven B.]

Re: Factory ID of Buyer

I have the tank sticker from my 69 that i bought new, it was a special trim/color order. it has numbers in the COPO box and it has my last name printed below the options.

Ralph, what trim/color combination did you order?

Steve

[Terry M.]

Re: Factory ID of Buyer

I have seen the buyer's name on other color/trim over ride orders (like Ralph's) and on Corvettes that were ordered by GM employees for their personal use. In the early C3 era those are the two circumstances where I have seen the buyer's name on the build documents, but I have not seen any "plant delivery" build documents. Since "plant delivery" officially didn't exist at that time, I am not sure what we would find.

BTW: Steven. I'm from Chicago where more people are armed than in Texas, and where it is illegal for the last 18 years to own handguns yea, right -- And I used to work on the street at all hours, so you law abiding wild westerners don't scare me. Although it has been 20 years since I worked the streets. You guys are supposed to have training to carry. We don't need none of that edumication around here, and almost any punk kid with his pants on the ground is armed.

[Robert C.]

Re: Factory ID of Buyer

Yes Terry, as Texans we all have to go all day to school(9am-8pm) to get our CHL. $70 for seniors. Last 5 years.

[Steven B.]

Re: Factory ID of Buyer

Thanks for the info. Terry! The old factory (St. Louis) deliveries are of interest to me. After a buyer requested factory delivery from the dealer what happened next? I assume the request was passed along with notations on the ordering and build docs. --- or was there some formal way to inform everyone along the way?


As for the guns in Chicago, you have a point. I was born in In Ohio and raised in rural Indiana. I remember students who wanted to go hunting could take their rifle and shells to school, put them in their locker, check out at noon and go hunting, or drive an hour and go to

Unfortunatley, some still take their guns and ammo to school and go hunting. It was much more simple then.

'saw some bucket trucks heading north a few days ago.

Steve

[Ralph S.]

Re: Factory ID of Buyer

The color was Daytona Yellow/ Saddle Leather. If someone can post a picture of the tank sticker i will send it to you to post.

[Terry M.]

Re: Factory ID of Buyer

The color was Daytona Yellow/ Saddle Leather. If someone can post a picture of the tank sticker i will send it to you to post.

Send it Ralph. I'll post it.

[Terry M.]

Re: Factory ID of Buyer

The color was Daytona Yellow/ Saddle Leather. If someone can post a picture of the tank sticker i will send it to you to post.

Ralph's 1969 build sheet:

[Steven B.]

Re: Factory ID of Buyer

Ralph's 1969 build sheet:

Thanks Guys! Why are the interior and exterior colors lined through near the bottom of the page? Who/where did the line through? Factory, dealer, ---?

Thanks!


Steve