1969 Build sheet info
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VIN was hand-typed beginning in 1973 and pre-assigned and printed on the manifest (landscape style) in 81 with the move of operations to Bowling Green. So, 1967-72 tanks stickers (portrait style), actually the Corvette Order Copy, had the last three digits hand-written as indicated by Ed.
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Hi,
I agree that the VIN wasn't typically part of the printed information on the tank sticker.
There was however an order number on the tank sticker. This order number was also on the window sticker. The window sticker also had a VIN on it. The problem of course is that there are far fewer window stickers left than tank stickers.
Here's a tank sticker with the hand written last 2 digits of this car's vin…. 89, (the car's vin is 6589), that restoman described.
You can see the order number on the tank sticker that also appears on the window sticker for this car in the pictures.
What's interesting is that this is such an ordinary car that no one would really care if there was a tank sticker/window sticker or not.
Regards,
Alan
Partial VIN 89, Job number 186, Order number CBT168.
VIN 6589, Order number CBT168
I agree that the VIN wasn't typically part of the printed information on the tank sticker.
There was however an order number on the tank sticker. This order number was also on the window sticker. The window sticker also had a VIN on it. The problem of course is that there are far fewer window stickers left than tank stickers.
Here's a tank sticker with the hand written last 2 digits of this car's vin…. 89, (the car's vin is 6589), that restoman described.
You can see the order number on the tank sticker that also appears on the window sticker for this car in the pictures.
What's interesting is that this is such an ordinary car that no one would really care if there was a tank sticker/window sticker or not.
Regards,
Alan
Partial VIN 89, Job number 186, Order number CBT168.
VIN 6589, Order number CBT168
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Go slowly. The handwritten numbers on the early stickers are assembly line job numbers and may or may not be related to the VIN. For some model years, subtracting 500 from the last three digits of the consecutive unit number gives the job number. For other model years, the job number can be the actual last three numbers of the VIN. For still other years, the job number has no correlation with the consecutive unit number.
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69FASTFUN: just curious. Does your VIN end with 888?
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Hi Mike,
Someone at some point had to be paying attention to VIN numbers since the roof panels had the VIN, not the job number, on their underside. It's in what appears to be more like chalk than the crayon that was used to write the job number various places.
I've always thought it was there so the person installing the 'soft parts' on the top would get the right interior trim color on the right color roof panels.
Regards,
Alan
Someone at some point had to be paying attention to VIN numbers since the roof panels had the VIN, not the job number, on their underside. It's in what appears to be more like chalk than the crayon that was used to write the job number various places.
I've always thought it was there so the person installing the 'soft parts' on the top would get the right interior trim color on the right color roof panels.
Regards,
Alan
