1967 Job Number

[Gary S.]

Re: 1967 Job Number

Read post #3 again. No relationship between handwritten number on body panels and handwritten number on the build (gas tank) sheet. Body panel numbers are to help the production line get all the right body panels to a given car being made.

[Michael J.]

Re: 1967 Job Number

Right, those are not job numbers.

[Henry S.]

Re: 1967 Job Number

Read post #3 again. No relationship between handwritten number on body panels and handwritten number on the build (gas tank) sheet. Body panel numbers are to help the production line get all the right body panels to a given car being made.

Interesting Gary, thanks for that clarification. I don't have my tank sticker but I just always assumed ( I know I should know better) the hand written number on the tank sticker was the same as the job number.

So if I got this right:
A. There's the VIN number
B. There's the hand written number on tank sticker which is usually with 5 plus or minus of the last three of VIN.
C. There is the job number (from 1-500) that is written on various body panels to ensure the correct body panels are matched up.
D. A (VIN) and B (tank) numbers should be same or within 5 of each other but C (job) has no relationship to other two numbers.

As I mentioned I don't have a tank sticker so when I read your post (#3) the first time I was thinking my job number should be within the 5 range and it is not. My 67 has a December 28 build date Vin # 7091 and job number is 469.

Thanks Gary, now it's clear(er).

take care,
Shooter

P.S. Just thought of something else and I don't remember seeing the answer someplace but may have just overlooked it. What is the reason for the hand written number on the tank sticker?

[Michael J.]

Re: 1967 Job Number

This is from an article in the Restorer, 2006, written by Tom Russo:
"What disappears from build sheets after 1973 is the scribbled reference to the three-digit Body Shop job number. The job number was assigned for a vehicle and body panels marked as they were prepared for assembly. This job number was also hand written on the Corvette Order Copy with the chassis copy glued to the gas tank. It appears that by the mid-seventies, this practice was discontinued. However, the job number was still used throughout C3 on body panels to track companion panels through the body shop."
So the question is, what does "job number" really mean and refer to? I had always been told that scribbled, penciled in 3 digit number on the tank sticker was the job number, as the OP asked here. If it isn't then what is it?

[Wayne W.]

Re: 1967 Job Number

Ralph,

That is the first batch of AOS bodies for 67, thus the A167. About half of the bodies were AOS, so 167 seems reasonable for serial number 326.

[Patrick B.]

Re: 1967 Job Number

The VIN of my 67 convertible is 14319, the tank sticker has the hand written job number 317, and the doors and underbody are grease penciled 107.

[Doug H.]

Re: 1967 Job Number

011.jpgThanks for all of the help with my original question. This is the best thing about being a member of the NCRS. My A.O. Smith '67 coupe, VIN #913, must have a "tank sticker job number" of 409 or 408. I'll wait until I hear from someone who has a car built on the same day, Sept. 12, 1966, to find out for sure. The "body job number" was erased during the restoration. All I have is a large "L 44" in black crayon and a date stamp of "Aug. 25, 1966" on the inside of the original door panel (not the door itself). Does anyone have a thought on this "L 44" number on the door panel? Would it have been the same as the original "body job number"? I took the car over to show the early 1968 through 2009 owners of the car their baby after the restoration and enclosed a picture of the occasion. Doug

[John H.]

Re: 1967 Job Number

[ATTACH=CONFIG]37186[/ATTACH]Thanks for all of the help with my original question. This is the best thing about being a member of the NCRS. My A.O. Smith '67 coupe, VIN #913, must have a "tank sticker job number" of 409 or 408. I'll wait until I hear from someone who has a car built on the same day, Sept. 12, 1966, to find out for sure. The "body job number" was erased during the restoration. All I have is a large "L 44" in black crayon and a date stamp of "Aug. 25, 1966" on the inside of the original door panel (not the door itself). Does anyone have a thought on this "L 44" number on the door panel? Would it have been the same as the original "body job number"? I took the car over to show the early 1968 through 2009 owners of the car their baby after the restoration and enclosed a picture of the occasion. Doug

Doug -

There would be no correlation between any number on the door trim panel and the applied body job number; the body was numbered where it was built in Ionia, Michigan, and the door trim panels were installed at St. Louis.