Tyler's Car

[William]

Body number has never had any bearing on production scheduling.

124379N569358 has been correctly recognized for years as ZL-1/COPO Camaro #1 by virtue of having the lowest VIN. It does NOT have the lowest [222002] body number. Of all ZL-1s the #3 car 124379N608193 has the lowest body number by a wide margin: 211785. Next in body number order is the #14 ZL-1 222001. #1 & #2 were built December 30, 1968. #3 was likely built the 1st week of March 1969. The remainder of Gibbs' ZL-1s were not built in body number order either even though they were ordered at the same time and grouped by color.

The same holds true for '69 Yenko Camaros. The lowest VIN 124379N578693 isn't even close to the lowest body number in the first group of cars Yenko ordered. In fact, of all the known cars it has one of the highest numbers in the first group.

In any group the lowest VIN is the earliest produced, period. John Z who was there has stated that, all of the evidence [Canadian Shipping Records are by VIN; CRG db] supports it.

The discussion continues because a few people believe they have something to gain by bending the truth.