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Final thought - company cars that were purchased by employees after completing their 3,000 miles were sent to a local dealer for delivery prep, title, financing, etc. I assumed that these cars were also referred to as "brass hat" deliveries. Kurt is probably correct though - brass hat may only have applied to the company cars that weren't purchased by salaried employees.

I had occasion to lose a company car when I took a bunch of engineers from the Tech Center over to the Leeds Plant for a drive audit of the new Monte Carlo ('76?). There was a flash flood in downtown KC while we were there eating dinner and my company car floated away! One less brass hat! The entire OK car lot also flooded and totaled hundreds of new cars.