Last '63 SWC Produced (and expensive)

[Keith Seymore]

For my own education: can anyone here tell me - with authority - if Corvettes were built in VIN order in St Louis in this timeframe?

Most of the plants I've been in (granted - "most", not "all") had an accumulator/buffer between the body shop and another between body and paint.

This allowed cars to be shuffled around in case a specific vehicle needed extended lineside repair, to level the workload downstream on the final line, or to provide a buffer to draw from to allow the final line to keep running in the event of a parts shortage or maintenance breakdown in body/paint (which was kind of often).

Therefore: most GM assembly plants did not build in VIN order. Fremont and Baltimore would be a couple notable exceptions off the top of my head.

K