Date Codes For Camaro Restoration Question

[Krateness]

Thanks guys.

Cars a Copo car built with a body tag build date of the 1st week of July.

For the stuff the car isn’t missing, most of it is dated in May so May/June is probably the right window I should be looking for.

[m22mike]

Originally Posted by Krateness

Thanks guys.

Cars a Copo car built with a body tag build date of the 1st week of July.

For the stuff the car isn’t missing, most of it is dated in May so May/June is probably the right window I should be looking for.

Have you looked at your vin # for a better idea of when it was actually built ? Compare your's with the vin totals for July .
Being a COPO It may have spent time in the body bank waiting to be scheduled. That could make the assy weeks ? Later than the TT date.
Date codes are not always X amount of time ahead of assembly. The driver mirror on my Malibu is 6 mo. ahead of assy.

Mike

[Krateness]

Originally Posted by m22mike

Have you looked at your vin # for a better idea of when it was actually built ? Compare your's with the vin totals for July .
Being a COPO It may have spent time in the body bank waiting to be scheduled. That could make the assy weeks ? Later than the TT date.
Date codes are not always X amount of time ahead of assembly. The driver mirror on my Malibu is 6 mo. ahead of assy.

Mike

In all honesty the car is more than just a COPO but is actually the fathom green Yenko found in Indiana last year. I’m helping in trying to track down what pieces the car is missing. NCRS documents showed an official production date of 7/10/69 before being shipped off to Yenko.

I have a friend who has a 944 (April/ 4th Week / 1969) 4346 carb and before setting out and buying one, if this one would technically be correct for the date code I’d just roll with it.

[6667ss138]

Originally Posted by Krateness

In all honesty the car is more than just a COPO but is actually the fathom green Yenko found in Indiana last year. I’m helping in trying to track down what pieces the car is missing. NCRS documents showed an official production date of 7/10/69 before being shipped off to Yenko.

I have a friend who has a 944 (April/ 4th Week / 1969) 4346 carb and before setting out and buying one, if this one would technically be correct for the date code I’d just roll with it.

Your COPO official production date has the same exact date as my X77 HO Z/28 (07A July 10th) according to my NCRS report. I have a lot of original born with assembly line parts still on the car and many are dated May. My 302 engine assembly date, heads, distributor, alternator, and carb for example are all May. The Muncie and BU rear are June. I think April would not be out of the question as they were about to wind down for the one month shutdown and were using up all available left over inventory. July 11th was the last day of production before the one month shutdown. I hope this helps.

[Kurt S]

Originally Posted by m22mike

Being a COPO It may have spent time in the body bank waiting to be scheduled. That could make the assy weeks ? Later than the TT date.

That's not how the body bank worked. All 6 of the lines in the body bank were always feeding the main line. A given car left the bank within minutes, not hours, of arriving.
http://www.camaros.org/assemblyprocess.shtml#chev
"There were usually six lines in the schedule bank - one for RS, one for A/C, one for SS and Z/28, and three for high-volume standard cars, so cars could be scheduled without having situations like three A/C's in a row, three consoles in a row, three RS's in a row, etc., as these had higher work content vs. the standard cars and scheduling two or three of them in a row would over-cycle certain line operations."