Hey Guys:

Below is an email that I recently received from Floyd Berus a senior member of NCRS.


I spoke with Tom Hill at the SE Regional in Kissimmee. I asked him about the availability of documentation that would be analogous to the C1 – C3 Assembly Instruction Manuals. He said such documents do exist and he could see no reason why they could not be released to the Corvette Museum for distribution.

He also said one of the problems with the Plant Automation Documents (PAD) is that they are about 10 times the size of the AIMs. This is both good and bad. It makes it impractical to provide them in hard copy form but they contain a lot of useful detail such as part usage specifics, in/out service dates, etc. He said that they would have to be distributed electronically either on CD/DVD or available for download. The good news is that they are already in electronic form and stored in the plant archives.

I think getting our hands on the PADs would be a windfall of information for C4 restorers. Tom agreed with me that 12+ years after the last C4 was built; the PADs wouldn’t contain any proprietary trade secrets.

I would like to encourage C4 restorers to persistently but politely request release of these documents. I think we should make our requests known to both the Bowling Green Plant and Corvette Museum.

You can submit enquires to the Bowling Green Plant at:

http://www.bowlinggreenassemblyplant.com

Click on the “Contact Us” link and enter your request for release of the C4 PAD’s to the Corvette Museum

You can submit requests and ideas for the Corvette Museum to:

Wendell Strode, Executive Director. His email is:

strode@corvettemuseum.org

 

Done! I'd like to someday take advantage of those docs.

 

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