Unique trim tag - Last AOS '67

[R N.]

Ledgendary Motor Car has this 1967 Chevrolet Corvette Roadster Authenticated by Noland Adams as the Last body produced by A.O. Smith for sale with a unique trim tag. Kind of neat!

http://www.legendarymotorcar.com/site/The_Last_1#

[Philip A.]

Re: Unique trim tag - Last AOS '67

I am no expert; but buyer be ware and do your due diligence! The language being used is careful; in my opinion.

"1967 Chevrolet Corvette Roadster
Authenticated by Noland Adams as the Last body produced by A.O. Smith"

This means the body number "matches" the last recorded body produced by AOS.



He is not stating this is an original or authentic Trim tag; and no where is there any claim it is! I would love for the experts on Trim tags to weigh in on this Trim tag.

[R N.]

Re: Unique trim tag - Last AOS '67

Another point.... If it's the last one, why is the body number A-0000?

[Michael W.]

Re: Unique trim tag - Last AOS '67

If nothing else, I now know what a '67 with a small block engine and hood looks like. Maybe that's what was meant by 'the last one'.

[Wayne M.]

Re: Unique trim tag - Last AOS '67

This trim tag was printed in a RESTORER issue, about 20 years ago. You can see the body date is K27.

Also, IIRC, this car was on eBay about 2007, and the seller divulged that it had a re-issued VIN from the Province of Ontario.

It probably has quite the history behind it.

[William L.]

Re: Unique trim tag - Last AOS '67

Side pipe car from A.O.S.

[Philip A.]

Re: Unique trim tag - Last AOS '67

Just noticed " It represents the last 1967 Corvette produced ". Represents like a tribute or clone. He is not saying this car actually is the last one; just that the trim tag represents that; with out even stating the legitimacy of the Trim tag. Someone should make up some more materials that this represents the one and only AOS side pipe car gotten through COPO too.

[William P.]

Re: Unique trim tag - Last AOS '67

Just watch this one show up in Scottsdale ! Rick Hendrick & Terry McCallus will shove it up to the moon and the Cougar from Alaska will buy it .

JMO Bill

[John H.]

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The lady who owns the car contacted me repeatedly when I was Vintage Technical Editor of "Corvette Enthusiast" magazine to get me to do a feature article on the car, but I wasn't interested in "advertising" the car for her, knowing what she planned to do with it.

I talked to Peter Klutt at Legendary this morning - he said they were well aware that the sidepipes were added and wouldn't have been on an A.O. Smith bodied-car, but the owner wanted them to stay on the car when they restored it.

[John H.]

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I find it interesting that the car's VIN plate (194677S120382) says it was produced off the line at St. Louis on June 8th (the same day as my A.O. Smith roadster, #120401, body built J24, May 24th), but the trim tag says the body was built in Ionia on K27, June27th, three weeks after the car left St. Louis.

[Philip A.]

Re: Unique trim tag - Last AOS '67

I guess the chronology of the dates makes it even more special; as it defies the time and space continuum. However, I am sure that it also makes it less rare since there are many cars out their with impossible date chronologies.

[Robert G.]

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I've been trying to make sense of the trim tags for a few years now and haven't been able to. The body numbers don't add up. In this case, I don't doubt that a final trim tag could have been made up and they would have an idea which day would be the last production day, but not the body number. Why it has shown up on this car is another mystery.

[Wayne W.]

Re: Unique trim tag - Last AOS '67

If you are referring to the body numbers on the trim tags, they add up pretty well. Except for 63, there were two lines running AOS and SL. Each line identified the bodies with tag numbers, one set for coupes and the other for convertibles. So you had four concurrently running sets of numbers. They will correlate with the serial numbers of the cars, but only in very general terms.

Each body builder also used a crayon body number on the line, ranging from 1-500. AOS prefaced that number with a letter A, B, C etc to denote how many series of 500 numbers there had been. SL just used the numbers. Once these bodies were fed into the final build at SL most order to those numbers are lost.

[Robert G.]

Re: Unique trim tag - Last AOS '67

If you are referring to the body numbers on the trim tags, they add up pretty well. Except for 63, there were two lines running AOS and SL. Each line identified the bodies with tag numbers, one set for coupes and the other for convertibles. So you had four concurrently running sets of numbers. They will correlate with the serial numbers of the cars, but only in very general terms.

Each body builder also used a crayon body number on the line, ranging from 1-500. AOS prefaced that number with a letter A, B, C etc to denote how many series of 500 numbers there had been. SL just used the numbers. Once these bodies were fed into the final build at SL most order to those numbers are lost.

Wayne,
What I've got for St. L and A.O. Smith coupes and convertibles adds up to 23,125 when actually on 22,940 cars were produced. My highest number is about 130 from the end, so we're talking over a 200 car discrepancy.

[Wayne M.]

Re: Unique trim tag - Last AOS '67

Wayne,
What I've got for St. L and A.O. Smith coupes and convertibles adds up to 23,125 when actually on 22,940 cars were produced. My highest number is about 130 from the end, so we're talking over a 200 car discrepancy.

Robert -- Noland Adams' Vol 2 (pg 40) shows the same exercise for all five years of C2 production, using the data he had accumulated in his surveys by the mid-'80s. He also had a higher total reported of 23,280 bodies (adding both styles, both sources) versus the 22940 VIN's produced in 1967.

From a similar exercise I've done on the 1965 MY, the main problem is getting sufficient sample size of late Ionia bodies; you'll find that there is considerable "scatter" in when the A-bodies get mated with the chassis, whereas a higher VIN on an S-body car is always linked to a higher S-body number (at least in the last 50 cars that I've concentrated on).