Re: Tyler's Car
Yes, the tags were made up sometime prior to the actual contruction of the car, based on an estimate of when the parts for that car would be available. I wuldn't be surprised if all the 07C tags were not all set to go at the beginning of the 07B build week. GM was getting roughly 1100 Camaro orders a day, 80 to 85% of these came to Norwood. There are huge logistical issues with getting the individual parts for those cars to the factory on time to build each and every car. So GM determines what cars will be built and approximately when they want the car assembled, and they send the order over to Fisher who enters the info for the car (body number trim codes, etc) and they commence to gather the raw material, or finished products necessary to assemble those cars to satisfy GMs schedule. Keep in mind this happens every day for a new batch of 912 cars, so there has to be a few days (maybe a weeks)notice to allow for shipment of material. So if your cars order was all made up and ready to go for the next week, and someone started crying about not having the car (dealer, zone office, whoever), or some other order for a similar car got cancelled, they could move yours up and reshuffle the schedule a little.
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