1974/5 Corvette GM Employee Purchase Docs
 

I thought some of you historians might like these. Nov 1974 my Dad was ordering a new Vette via the GM discount program. Selecting options suitable for a daily driver.
Alas, they pulled the plug on the orders.

Bill, that's very interesting paperwork. It sure appears that the 1975 Corvette was in high demand.

Cool paperwork.

Hopefully I was able to rotate these...

One of the largest corporations in the world at the time and they couldn't find a letter writer that could spel...l

I had a college roommate in 1975 and his dad bought him a new Camaro under this plan. It was a basic V8 Camaro, but very nice. He had to hold on to it for the allotted time before he could sell it.

I'm surprised he didn't opt for the L-82?

That surprised me as well. I roughly remember he tried to get a 74 as well. Green 454 convertible. There was a set number allotted for each division and Dad was last on the list. Then they brought in a new exec and he wanted a Vette and Dad got bumped. As of last week, Dad at 92 still remembered that guy’s name when I brought up this old paperwork lol.

It was after these failed efforts he started buying used ones we’d fix up so ultimately that became a much better outcome.

Those papers should be in the Corvette museum

I bought a 76 Corvette on the employee discount program. Black with red gut. I have pics of it around here somewhere. Discounts back then amounted to enough that you could balloon finance the entire purchase price & sell the car for a profit after the waiting period.

classic bait and switch...

Another Corvette related tidbit from a 1977 GM employee newsletter.

Ozzie Osborne :headbang:

no masks in the paint and sanding area. wow Ozzie was right at it

Heavy downdraft ventilation system through the steel grates on the floor, no need for a mask

1969

I always thought it was the drugs, maybe lead paint was his drug of choice?

paging Keith Seymore

seeing the picture/caption of the starting the engine for the first time, can you tell us what the process is on this. and i know all of the new cars ive bought have between 7 and 15 miles on them. do they accumulate these miles on a "roller machine" or any actual driving or a little of both?

They were driven off the assembly line to the holding lot outside the plant then driven to the loading docks where they went on a railcar or a car carrier truck if the dealer was within driving distance. Then they were unloaded at the destination rail yard and parked in the rail yard only to be driven again onto a car carrier to the dealer then again when they arrived at the dealer to their lot. I worked at the railyard auto terminal in Framingham MA unloading the cars off the trains in the seventies.

When I was at the St Louis assembly plant, the roller had a concentric (smooth) left end and an eccentric (‘Belgian block”)right end. So, the driver checked for ride on the flat side, and squeaks & rattles on the bumpy side. The time on the rollers was pretty brief - way less than 1/8 mile on odometer. Most of the miles were added in traveling out to the OK car lot, and then on to loading on transport.

That’s my recollection - Keith?