"Hog Wild" '69 Z-28 Super Stock Car.

[70 copo]

VIN 627007

[Kurt S]

Maybe I shouldn't have called it repro. But again, I can't explain.
The history of the car says it's real, but *none* of the numbers line up. I've seen lots of #'s and these are off.
I'd like to hear / see confirmation of the date on the tag.
Have the partial VIN's on the car been confirmed?

03A is way off for that VIN. Phil, still think they scheduled it a month ahead?
And that new body # would still be off.

[MailOrderMotion]

Phil has the proper VIN and the hiddens have been confirmed. The body tag date is 03A without question. Phil and I have discussed the 04-14 release date vs the 1st week March Fisher date and as always he went the extra mile and found out how it was within reason. If you look at a '69 calendar, 03A is actually the 3rd through the 7th. 04-14 is a Monday and since that is the "Ship" date and not a true production date, the car would have been built the previous week ( 7th thru the 11th ). So that narrows the gap just a bit. To my understanding the Fisher tag dates were generated when the order was accepted, not necessarily when scheduled to be built. If a major component wasn't available, it was set aside until it was and in this case that may have been whatever color paint was not available at that moment. Anyway, Phil knows far more than I ever will, so I'll give him the floor.

[Kurt S]

If the body # was keyed in wrong, did the Norwood guys say how the broadcast sheet would be generated?
How would they pull up the order specs?

[70 copo]

The key punch of the body number was a non integrated portion of the process so the body plate (trim Tag) could have a number wrong and the car's content still got entered correctly on other sections of the key card which are separate. IBM computer created the Broadcast sheet.

Key punch errors are the primary reasons that RPO content was missed at Fisher body.

Case in point; I know of a HO Z/28 built as an RS with all the RS Equipment that had X-77 on the body plate whereas the requirements for an X-33 build up on the body were carried out. I have known the car since a youth and the car has all right equipment for X-33 right down to the wiper motor.

incidentally that car is an 03-B build-pretty close to OP's car in a production time frame.

Same key puncher perhaps?

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

I've only studied the '70 Yenko TT's, but even within the 3 week build date I can tell you that the first 15 bodies have a build date of 06A and the next 20 bodies have a build date of 05D - completely backwards vs conventional thinking! Scheduling issues, typo's, etc... it happens!

[x77-69z28]

Just thinkin out loud. If the number was typed in wrong, would it have been a one shot deal, or would it have been a group of cars? Kurt, have we seen this in any of the other cars in that time frame?

[Tracker1]

BRING IT TO MCACN , put it in the barn finds section and ask the Norwood Ambassadors to crawl over it and help figure out what went on with the tag...

[70 copo]

We can do that!

[camaromb]

The recent Mecum Dallas '69 Yenko that sold is another example of weird build time/vin tag/bdy sequencing. The car is an N615XXX vin with a 219770 BDY # within the Yenko order/03B build. The car was built in April with its original 417BE, PPG glass, 110th day dated booster, etc. I don't know how the vin was assigned within the March built Yenko cars but the car was not built until later in April? I believe the ship date from the NCRS report was the 3rd week of April.