Engine stamping...comments ?

[Mark_C]

It was actually a Thursday car, It should be an 03B car and probably has an LA W/O number somewhere near I520. Started down the line on 3/13/69 late afternoon, probably hit the GM assembly area (where the VIN would have been stamped on the body on Monday 3/17) and the engine area (body drop) on Tuesday 3/18. So the engine and transmission would have been stamped either late Monday or sometime Tuesday.

[Charley Lillard]

03B car. Block is cast B 18 9

[DZ Fool]

Mark what do you meen Buy a workorder Number [ QUOTE ]
It was actually a Thursday car, It should be an 03B car and probably has an LA W/O number somewhere near I520. Started down the line on 3/13/69 late afternoon, probably hit the GM assembly area (where the VIN would have been stamped on the body on Monday 3/17) and the engine area (body drop) on Tuesday 3/18. So the engine and transmission would have been stamped either late Monday or sometime Tuesday.

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[Mark_C]

LA built cars have a w/o number stamped on the lower right corner of the trim tag that consists of a letter and three digits like I520. It is how LA kept track of car bodies inside the plant. The letter is equivalent to the bay the body was scheduled to be built and roughly corresponds to the day of the month in this case I = the 9th working day of the month, and the digits equal the 520th body scheduled to be built on that day. Note that the build day letter does not always correspond with the calendar day, ie the A build day is not always the first working day of the month.

[Charley Lillard]

trim tag from same car

[Mark_C]

Weren't making many Camaros on that day, I've got a trim tag from a Pacecar 34 VINs later with a I605 W/O number.

[rpoz11]

How about anything prior to I125 in an 03B? Anything else occur alike this in that week?

[Mark_C]

That statement wasn't meant to be taken literally. LA built 3 different Chevrolet models (I think) and about 650 to 700 cars a day, so one would expect about every third W/O number to be a Camaro. But nothing says the bodies had to be spaced evenly throughout the day. The first 100 bodies of the day could have been all Camaros, or all Impalas, or whatever, they could have been scheduled to be made in batches or single units, you would have to follow the W/O numbers on the other models to know how they were distributed on any given day.

[Jonesy]

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How about anything prior to I125 in an 03B? Anything else occur alike this in that week?

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I have a car 21 before this one, 03B pace car with I005. 03B also had G and H weeks.