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Re: Original dealer info for 1st gens is available
« Reply #240 on: May 18, 2014, 02:03:58 AM »
Here is a listing of the zone office locations as of 1969, from GM documentation:
1   Flint MI
2   Tarrytown   NY
3   St. Louis MO
4   Minneapolis MN
5   Kansas City MO
6   Oakland CA
7   Dallas TX
8   Atlanta GA
9   Cincinnati OH
10   Denver CO
11   Chicago IL
12   Buffalo NY
13   Pittsburgh   PA
14   Baltimore MD
15   Philadelphia PA
16   Charlotte NC
17   Memphis TN
18   Des Moines IA
19   Portland, OR
20   Los Angeles CA
21   export   
22   Louisville KY
23   Oklahoma City OK
24   New Orleans LA
25   Indianapolis IN
26   Jacksonville FL
27   New York   NY
28   Cleveland   OH
29   Omaha NE
30   Houston TX
31   Birmingham AL
32   Boston MA
33   Fargo ND
34   San Diego   CA
35   Newark NJ
36   Salt Lake UT
37   Richmond   VA
39   El Paso TX
40   Charleston   WV
41   Wichita KS
42   Seattle WA
43   Portland, ME
44   Detroit MI
45   South Bend IN
46   Green Bay   WI
47   Peoria IL
48   Syracuse NY
49   Harrisburg   PA
61   Milwaukee   WI

These are from various Canadian sources - not a definitive as the above list, but I believe they are correct.
80   Oshawa   ON
81   Vancouver   BC
82   Calgary   Alberta
83   Regina   SK
84   Winnipeg   MB
85   London   ON
86   Montreal   Quebec
87   Moncton   NB
88   Ste. Foy   QC
95   Toronto   ON
96   Ottawa   ON
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Re: Original dealer info for 1st gens is available
« Reply #241 on: May 18, 2014, 02:31:58 AM »
Got my paperwork today on my  67 L-35 . The original dealer was Gibson Chevrolet Co Inc, Leadville, CO.  It was sold at Central Chevrolet Co, Grand Junction, CO, per my POP.

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« Reply #242 on: May 18, 2014, 04:58:33 AM »
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 -

We will get caught up on the service and when that happens the turnaround time should not be to painful. It's truly a shame this large batch of early 69 Camaro's is missing. we have confirmed the same information is missing from the NICB file as well. In the Corvette world we did a similar thing keeping track of the VIN's we missed in the initial roll out, we were able to go back and respond to better than 20% of those we initially missed.  Hopefully we will have similar success in this project.  It is a lot more complicated in this project, 10 plus plants all using the same last 6 digits, different body styles, etc. the sort routines are confusing and sometimes less than desirable.  We had one plant, two bodies, no duplicate last six on the Corvette project. By the way this sites spell check does not like Camaro - thinks it should be Camry - go figure!

That's funny..  Camry!    that's exactly the way my dad pronounced it when they first came out.. I tried to correct him, to no avail.. :)
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« Reply #243 on: May 18, 2014, 08:49:21 PM »
Those will be the zone offices, many zones included multiple states.

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« Reply #244 on: May 18, 2014, 10:13:35 PM »
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.

 
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Re: Original dealer info for 1st gens is available
« Reply #245 on: May 19, 2014, 02:31:54 AM »
Yes, I should have clarified. Every zone had a zone office and that was the location. That should match with the NCRS doc.
E.g. Alabama is zone 31.
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« Reply #246 on: May 19, 2014, 03:03:23 AM »
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..
X2,, I would also like to thank Risnor and his team, what a great service.  I applied for my car #801, haven't heard yet whether it's good.  Regardless, THANKS!
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« Reply #247 on: May 19, 2014, 12:54:32 PM »
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..

Statistics as of 5/18 we have processed 446 vehicles. 282 Camaro, 132 Chevelle and 32 Nova.  I'm not going to spend much time on these statistics because it just means at this point anyway I'm not processing reports.

Thank You all for the kind words, it is information the hobbyist deserves to have and I am pleased to be a part of it.

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« Reply #248 on: May 20, 2014, 12:51:57 AM »
Just received my info back as well. Mohawk Chevrolet, Schenectady NY.  Great stuff, thx Roy!
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« Reply #249 on: May 21, 2014, 06:48:31 AM »
Got my three on Monday. Thank you Roy. If you are ever on Long Island, I owe you a beer! Or two!
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« Reply #250 on: May 21, 2014, 02:09:49 PM »
Got mine yesterday- - - Dealer Code 19, Zone 39, Broncho Chevrolet Co., Odessa, TX
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Re: Original dealer info for 1st gens is available
« Reply #251 on: May 22, 2014, 05:38:45 PM »
Got my SDR today:

Dealer code 784 in zone 3.

Dealer name and location was:
Svanda-Meyer Chevrolet Inc.
Sparta, Illinois

Still exist but I need some nice merchandise from them, anybody?
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« Reply #252 on: May 22, 2014, 06:02:55 PM »
Got mine today:

Production date 8/20/1969

Dealer code 127 in zone 20

Cormier Chevrolet Co
Long Beach, CA

Possibly this? http://www.winchevrolet.com/Win-History

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« Reply #253 on: May 22, 2014, 06:06:26 PM »
I have seen these on ebay a few times:
1969 garnet red Z/28 46k mile unrestored X77
-Looking for 3192477 (front) spiral shocks 3192851 (rear)
-Looking for an original LOF soft ray windshield
-Looking for original Delco side post negative battery cable part # 6297651AV

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« Reply #254 on: May 22, 2014, 06:23:23 PM »
I have seen these on ebay a few times:

Thanks, I saw those, but I bought this which was cheaper :)

http://www.ebay.com/itm/121343592270