Question about 1970 Chevelle Cowl Tags..

[Belair62]

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I would imagine that there are other "production pilots," out there for the other plants, but again it is possible given Baltimore's importance in the "A" body program (Z16's, COPO's)that Baltimore was used as the "testbed" for production, and other "production pilots" weren't constructed.


[/ QUOTE ] Wouldn't every plant make pilot cars so the guys doing the job knew how to do it ?? Seems like manufacturing 101 but what do I know !

Belair,

I would think that all the plants would make production pilots, but who knows as of yet no other "pilot" LS6 has surfaced. It would make sense that the other plants, Atlanta or Leeds for instance would have wanted to make sure the line would support the work,and quality was ok, but since the LS6 was just a larger engine maybe there wasn't a need. I was specualting that since Baltimore was the "A" body plant that seemed to take on the more "interesting" projects" (Z16, COPO) maybe they were given the task and then the other plants just followed suit based on what Baltimore encountered. It wouldn't be any changes to the line, since the LS6 is just a larger L78, and the plants certainly could use the same work flow. There have been a few LS6's that have surfaced from the other plants (I have an 12C Atlanta car) from around the 12B time period and to date , no other cars seem to be coded as "pilots." So who knows...