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COPO; The VIN would have to be assigned before the car began production, because the VIN is stamped on various areas of a car's sheetmetal, cowl for Camaro, Firewall for Nova. There is no doubt that this had to, and did occur in the Fisher Body "body shop", the 1st phase of building a car. If Chevrolet did it, A. it would be next to impossible to reach the area, and B. they would be working on freshly painted sheetmetal. Tom