02D production date

[KurtS]

1. The GM number is a snapshot in time, its the last car leaving the building at the end of the 2nd shift on the last calendar day of the month.

The "location" of the GM number is unknown and unverified. It is believed to the end-of-the-line count (because that logically makes sense), but it varies wildly some months, for unknown reasons.

[camaroman1969]

HI EVERYONE!!!  Just want to say to, that I own a 1969 Camaro SS, build date 02-D, N611808...........

[camaro cat]

I'll add in. My 02D N605415 has a ship date according to NCRS of Thursday, 2/27/1969 and shipped to Bill White Chevrolet Co., Tulsa, OK. 1969 was a leap year so Friday, the 28th was the last day of the month. This brings up a question for my 67 to help understand how cowl tags where dated in line with actual production days. My 67 is  L110515 with a cowl tag date of 10C; and according to NCRS, a ship date of Tuesday, 10/25/1966, and shipped to Van Chevrolet Co., Shawnee Mission, KS. With  Halloween being the following Monday the 31st, was Monday the only build day that would of had a 10D cowl tags attached to the firewall, while Tuesday's production would have been the first 11A tags attached or would the first 4 days of November also have stayed with a cowl tag date of 10D and Monday, November 7 would have had the first 11A cowl tags installed on firewalls. 

Loren

[Mark]

Usually a build week number on a tag was supposed to be a full 5 days worth of production. So a lone Monday (or any number of days in the week that started in one month and ended in the next) at the end of one month carried its end of the previous month build week over to the rest of days in that the week, then the next months build weeks started the following Monday.

But nothing is written in stone, and sometimes that last lone Monday in one month may have been part of the first build week of the next month.  All we know is that the Cowl tags do not exactly follow the calendar.  Fisher did not appear to change the cowl tags in the middle of a production week, whatever code it started with was carried thru the entire week.  Fisher was free to code their tags to suit their needs and their accounting system.  Also LA was a GMAD plant that operated in a completely different manner than Norwood did with it separate Fisher and Chevrolet operations.

[camaro cat]

That is interesting and I am glad I asked. So if there are no 10D LOS tags that are known, it is very likely that the 31st was the beginning of 11A tag attachment. However it also could be that what ever the last serial number recorded at the end of 2nd shift on Monday the 31st for October production, then had many Camaro's with 10D tags following it until the end of the week when the last 10D  tag would have been attached to a firewall that would have then come off the assembly  line sometime the following Tuesday the 8th or Wednesday the 9th.

Loren