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Camaro Research Group Discussion => Originality => Topic started by: bc69 on February 25, 2014, 02:35:35 AM

Title: Muncie 3925660
Post by: bc69 on February 25, 2014, 02:35:35 AM
Were there any know Muncie 3925660's in SS cars in 67?
Title: Re: Muncie 3925660
Post by: 1968RSZ28 on February 25, 2014, 02:57:56 AM
Were there any know Muncie 3925660's in SS cars in 67?

No, all '67 Camaros with 4-speed Muncies got the 3885010 maincase.

Paul
Title: Re: Muncie 3925660
Post by: bc69 on February 25, 2014, 03:43:51 AM
Other than that I found a stamped 19S015958 .....vin?
Title: Re: Muncie 3925660
Post by: 1968RSZ28 on February 25, 2014, 04:30:42 AM
Other than that I found a stamped 19S015958 .....vin?

19S015958 is the partial VIN.  That transmission is out of a 1969 full-size Chevy passenger car.

Paul
Title: Re: Muncie 3925660
Post by: bc69 on February 25, 2014, 04:33:13 AM
Can you break it down for me Paul?
Title: Re: Muncie 3925660
Post by: 1968RSZ28 on February 25, 2014, 05:16:37 AM
Other than that I found a stamped 19S015958 .....vin?

Can you break it down for me Paul?

19S015958

1 = Chevrolet
9 = 1969 model
S = St. Louis, MO assembly plant
015958 = serial number sequence

You can't decode the exact model full-size Chevy (Bel Air, Biscayne, Caprice, Impala, etc.) with the partial VIN.  You would need the full VIN to do that.

Paul
Title: Re: Muncie 3925660
Post by: bc69 on February 25, 2014, 12:43:10 PM
I understand the last part. I just couldn't get anywhere with what I had.
Thanks again Paul. Big help!
Title: Re: Muncie 3925660
Post by: jdv69z on February 25, 2014, 02:37:18 PM
I thought St Louis was the Corvette assembly plant?
Title: Re: Muncie 3925660
Post by: JohnZ on February 25, 2014, 04:06:09 PM
I thought St Louis was the Corvette assembly plant?

St. Louis was a "complex", and was the largest assembly plant in North America in the 60's; it had a 4-story main plant with a 65-per-hour passenger car line that built Impala and Caprice, and a 35-per-hour Truck line that built everything from pickups to school bus chassis, and all of the forward-control Corvair-based trucks (Corvan, Greenbrier, Rampside, etc.) were built on the 4th Floor. The Corvette plant was a separate small building on the rear corner of the property, behind the powerhouse and coal pile. I spent 8 months at Corvette in '67-'68 and 4 months in the Passenger line in '68-'69.
Title: Re: Muncie 3925660
Post by: bc69 on February 25, 2014, 04:15:19 PM
I have run upon a 4p matching all but this 4sp. He has protect-I among other
Info.
Title: Re: Muncie 3925660
Post by: 69Z28-RS on February 25, 2014, 04:57:39 PM
I thought St Louis was the Corvette assembly plant?

1969 Corvettes were built at St Louis, but their VINs are in the range of:  700001 to 738762.  The VIN sequence of the transmission under discussion was obviously NOT from a Corvette (even though it went into a St Louis assembled '69 vehicle), so it had to be from a different model assembled in St Louis.   We're lucky to have access to the knowledges of people like JohnZ (who worked there and knows what they assembled in addition to Corvettes) and to 1968RSZ28 (who recognized the particular VIN sequence as being from a full size passenger).   Incidentally, I'd suspect that a 4-speed-Muncie-equipped full size in '69 would be a rare vehicle, as the numbers of 4-sp manual equipped Impalas were going down significantly each year after 1964....  :)
Title: Re: Muncie 3925660
Post by: VINCE Z28 on February 25, 2014, 11:21:38 PM
John Z does that place have it's own zip code... I seen some cities smaller then that. :)
Title: Re: Muncie 3925660
Post by: 69Z28-RS on February 26, 2014, 03:59:11 AM
It might even have more than one zipcode.. :)    I've worked for smaller operations that had their own zipcode.. :)
Title: Re: Muncie 3925660
Post by: jdv69z on February 26, 2014, 01:48:48 PM
Didn't have a clue, other than the Corvette part. I guess it must be that the Corvettes get most of the attention, it never occurred to me that other car were being built in St Louis as well.

As far as Muncie 4 speeds in Impalas, I bought one early in the 70's from a guy and it came out of an Impala with a 396, as I recall. It was either a 66 or 67 model.
Title: Re: Muncie 3925660
Post by: JohnZ on February 26, 2014, 03:32:09 PM
John Z does that place have it's own zip code... I seen some cities smaller then that. :)

As a matter of fact, the site had two zip codes - one for Chevrolet, and one for Fisher Body.