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General Discussion / Re: Original dealer info for 1st gens is available
« on: May 28, 2014, 12:22:31 AM »
Were there any 9N7xxxxx Camaro's?
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Risnor, I have been following this subject and submitted and applications as well. This has to be a labor of love to dig and research through all these files in order to help others find out information about their car(s). This is a great service you and your team are providing.
I would like to thank you and your team for researching this information and sending out the information to the Camaro owners here on CRG. To date, with the more than 600 plus application that you have received, how many actual certificates have been processed, including those that were refunded due to not being in the archive files.
TMR..
Roy,
Just got my refund for 9N707541. I've been glued to this thread since it started. I appreciate all the efforts by yourself
and others to accomplish this task. My question is, did I just get lucky to be one of the missing (random) or does it seem that other October 1969 build cars will also be missing? I guess my real question is whether mine might still have some hope to be found? Thanks again.
I can't answer your question about other cars missing in the same VIN area at this point. We miss about 7% of the cars we check, just the way it is. We have found batches that for some reason did not sort correctly, we have found pages that got missed in the digitization. The important thing to realize is we have kept a record of every car we missed and it is flagged as missed so if we do uncover a group of numbers we will recheck the missed cars against them and notify anyone that it affects.
Roy,
I received my refund very (reluctantly) quickly - N553XXX, in the middle of the "lost" VIN's - please keep us posted on any discoveries. I do believe I would gladly double the fee to find this one, even with the documentation of the matching numbered engine that I have with the car. I was in the first day, in the first 100 to sign up, probably one of the first to get a refund, so I lost my place in line. Thanks again for all of your efforts -
Regards -
Roy,
Just got my refund for 9N707541. I've been glued to this thread since it started. I appreciate all the efforts by yourself
and others to accomplish this task. My question is, did I just get lucky to be one of the missing (random) or does it seem that other October 1969 build cars will also be missing? I guess my real question is whether mine might still have some hope to be found? Thanks again.
What do you think Roy??
I have a couple shipping documents from Scuncio Cheverolet in Greenville RI. They show a dealer code of 32613 Zone 32. Is the dealer code the same as the dealer number? Have not got my paperwork yet but hoping this is what it says.
Roy,
The employee at Joe Clayton Chevrolet whom I talked to today (a long time friend) is the parts manager there. When I explained the difference between what NCRS data had for Joe V Clayton (Zone 8/ Dealer 73).. He said yes that is correct. When I told him what GM records had for my car on date 18Sept69, he said he thought the old zone number was '31'... (I was hoping he'd confused 31 and 21), but maybe it really was 31. He mentioned 'the previous dealer' as Royal Chevrolet (I think). I will get back with him and probably drive down there and see what they might have in terms of written documentation for the old Zone number... and will report back.
Note: Joe Clayton Chevrolet originated in cy 1968 (could have been with the '69 model year. Before that, the area was possibly covered by Royal Chevrolet (based in Huntsville, AL). Back then, Clayton Chevrolet had the reputation all across north Alabama and southern Tennessee as being the area's 'high performance' headquarters where lots of people bought their muscle cars...
Gary
Stingr69 posted:
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My number is one of the ":missing" ones. :~("
Maybe if we put all out information together, we can figure out some of these..
1) Did you have some *idea* of where the car may have been sold originally?
2) What Zone # and Dealer # was reported to you (and based on what date?)..
My car was shipped on 18Sep1969, Zone#21 Dealer#73 reported. I *thought* my car was sold originally at Joe Clayton Chevrolet, in Arab AL, and the current Dealer number is the same #73, but the current Zone # is 8. I talked to my friend who works there today; he told me the last 'old employee' from that period has alzheimers, but he told me the original Zone number (from 1968 time frame) was #31 (he thought). I'm hoping he didn't recollect this exactly and that it was 21 instead..
Gary
I just received my letter, I do not know whether to laugh or cry.Maybe Hawaii has records and one has to wonder if the original owner was in the service since the car traveled so much ().
6/23/69, Dealer code 1, Zone 79 (Hawaii), Dealer Name: GM overseas Distribution
Now what the heck am I supposed to do with that!
I bought the car in north NJ in 82 and it had a Seton Hall University sticker on the window. This car really traveled! LA to Hawaii to NJ!!!
Anyone here have information on the GM shipping to Hawaii info??
If a car was ordered by someone while on active duty the order system would have processed it through the overseas distribution. My guess based on seeing a few of these would e your car was ordered by someone in the navy possibly stationed in Hawaii and delivered to a dealer in his home state for his return. that's all speculation but its based on what we know happened. More times than not an Overseas Distribution meant exactly that sometimes it was shipped overseas sometimes it was not.
Do you think there are additional records someplace in the navy or GM Hawaii that I can investigate?
I just received my letter, I do not know whether to laugh or cry.Maybe Hawaii has records and one has to wonder if the original owner was in the service since the car traveled so much ().
6/23/69, Dealer code 1, Zone 79 (Hawaii), Dealer Name: GM overseas Distribution
Now what the heck am I supposed to do with that!
I bought the car in north NJ in 82 and it had a Seton Hall University sticker on the window. This car really traveled! LA to Hawaii to NJ!!!
Anyone here have information on the GM shipping to Hawaii info??
Roy, Just out of curiosity how many request have you received so far?
Well, I paid by Paypal early the first day (#136) and I haven't heard anything as yet.. not sure what I'm hoping for here.. I guess if they are doing them alphabetically (my last name begins with W) , that's better than hearing they don't have my VIN on their records..
The missing are about 3500 microfiche cards if there are about 22 cars on each one. Some boxes in a corner or closet somewhere were missed? Keep hope alive!