[Keith Tedford]

Vintage Vehicle Services was sort of an evolutionary thing. Many years ago GM had a reference office (my descriptive name). You might have an engine out of heaven knows what. You gave them the casting number and/or stamped VIN numbers. They could look up what the engine application was. Then you knew where to start if you needed parts. Larry Davidson did a search on an engine in a '65 Chev SS for us. Turned out to be a late '50s 283 engine. This service was meant primarily for garages and dealerships I would assume. With all the information that was available, guys like us eventually started making requests regarding our cars and it was all free. We got the GM info on our COPO car in about 1988. At that time they didn't have information on the ZP8, ZV6, ZN1 and other Z series codes. Guys like Peter Simpson and others have since seen patterns and figured out what the codes meant. Even the GM guys didn't have all the information but did their best. Helping us was more of a service by guys, like Larry who were interested in cars, than part of their job. Without their interest, the service might not even be available to us today.