Re: #13 is lucky if you are a Camaro Engineering Pilot
Verne,
There is zero Sarcasm here just supported facts. Fair enough.... You go with your guy who has an opinion and he may be correct for another facility/Plant. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/beers.gif[/img]
In this specific discussion I will go with the guys who built XP-836 and the Pilot group coordinator for Norwood.
The coordinator was James Seim who worked out of Norwood starting in 1950's and was reassigned to Flint starting in 1965 specifically to coordinate the XP-836 launch and the spring 1966 build at Norwood.
Make no mistake, these guys used the term Pilot and Prototype interchangeably when speaking about this activity which was all new for Norwood and for GM as the building of "Pilots" and "assembly line prototypes" was sent to the Prime assembly plant in a significant group for the first time.
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