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Old 03-01-2010, 08:13 PM
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Default Re: Tyler's Car

Your car was sheduled to be built later as evidenced by the 07C code, but after the tag was stamped it was pulled forward in production for whatever reason Fisher or GM had. The Trim tags (or the computer cards that created them were done days, if not a week prior to the start of contruction of the body they were intended to go on). So if someone decided they needed a particular car a week earlier, they could just pull that tag (and by tag i mean the entire paperwork package that went with that body number and tag) out of its holder and bring it forward, or conversely delay it for a day, week, whatever. The tags were not spit out of a machine and riveted to the cowl as they came out of the machine. If your VIN is lower that the 07B VIN your car physically came down the line first, if its Higher it came down after. Pretty simple concept,every time a car came thur the wall from Fisher to GM the VIN counter advanced by 1 number the VIN was then recorded against that particular body number, assigned a sequence number (crayon marking on the firewall) and released into the Body bank for sequencing out into GMs side of the plant.
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