What is a zone car?

[mcnova5]

Here's the zone listing from 69.

It's interesting page too, because it's the number of vehicles affected by a recall. They had to figure out where the cars went, including to the Red Cross.

This is a cool document. Do these numbers represent just Camaro, or all of models for Chevrolet in 1969?

[KurtS]

I think that recall was for full-size.

[396 SS/RS]

My '68 is a loaded 09D 396 SS/RS. I bought it from the 76 year old original owner in '86 with 47k miles on it.

The story was told to me by him when I first happened upon the car and I have no reason to doubt it as being the truth. It wasn't to get me to buy it (I was going to buy it come hell or high water and had to beg him for 3 years to sell it to me), or to up the selling price since he sold the car to me for $3,500.

His story was, he saw it being unloaded from a transporter at Charles Smith Chevrolet in Florence, South Carolina. He stopped to look at it while additional cars were being offloaded. A salesman came out as he was looking it over and they started talking. He ended up putting a deposit on the car and planned to pick it up several days later. The dealership called the following day to tell him that they couldn't sell him the car, that is was destined for CA going to a GM executive and that the salesman would be glad to order one just like it. He said he told the salesman that he committed to buying the car when signed the paperwork and they committed to selling the car when they accepted his deposit check. He said he picked up the car several days later as originally planned and that it took weeks to get all of the paperwork as it had already been forwarded to CA and had to wait for it to be sent back to South Carolina.

So I have no way of backing up the story but it seems logical.