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Old 07-07-2021, 06:49 PM
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Originally Posted by the427king View Post
If hes right, the last 32 1963 corvettes were convertibles.
That does not seem likely to me.

There are rules about how many "high content" vehicles can be built in a row, due to workload on the line. In other words, you can't build too many tripowers in a row, you can't build too many manual trans in a row, you can't build too many A/C cars in a row, and - I suspect - you can't build too many convertibles in a row.

It could be different during model change over, and I could imagine a plant building a short run of all convertibles but at a reduced line rate or with empty carriers between builds.

But -I am speculating, and that perhaps makes me no better than the ebay seller.

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