St Louis Body date to VIN date interval
A friend asked me to look a few characteristics of a 67 Corvette to check for originality. It has a St. Louis body with a G17 trim tag date (Feb 17) but a VIN consistent with a March 1 completion. I told him this would be fine for an AO Smith body, but it could not be correct for a St. Louis body. Is there any way such a long gap between the trim tag and VIN plate could happen a St. Louis? Are the two tags attached at the same time or at different parts of the factory?
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Re: St Louis Body date to VIN date interval
pat check year buddys 67 and make sure it is in fact a st louis body and not an ao smith. shape of rivets in doors and presence or lack of an indexing dimple for power window conduit on door pillar. mike -
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Mike: The trim tag is certainly St. Louis with a body number preceded by an "S", and the car is a big block. Is it the AO Smith or the St. Louis body with the indexing dimple? I didn't know the two plants used different fiberglass.Comment
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pat : st louis door pillar fiberglass was dimpled to allow for correct installation of power window conduit in the event the vet was to get PW. AO Smith pillar fiberglass was flat. could the vin plate and trim plate originated on two different Z-bars after they left st louis? mikeComment
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The trim tag and the VIN plate on a St. Louis-bodied car were created and affixed at the same point (the first operation on the Hard Trim Line, which was the first operation after the end of the Paint Shop), and typically the car came off the Final Line the next day. I can't think of an instance where 12 days would pass between the body build date and the car coming off the Final Line; once the body hit the Hard Trim Line, it was "locked in sequence" from there all the way through the system to the end of the Final Line.
Could be a typo on the trim tag build date, or a tag switch, or ?Comment
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John and Mike, thanks for the info. John's information on the trim tag and vin plate sequence along with the suspicious scratches and dents on the trim plate make a trim plate swap a certainty on this car. And it seems to get worse. It did not have the dimples in the door pilar, suggesting it was an AO Smith body of a small block car and had gained 100 cubic inches during a "restoration". Fortunately, my friend was evaluating the car for a potential buyer rather than being the owner.Comment
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