COPO disassembly

[Mr70]

Curious..What number is printed on the very bottom right of each of your 3 buildsheets?
It should be incapsulated by a bunch of perforated holes.
Like the letter C.

[Nova Research Project]

copo9566aa;

Thanks. Did the body number match the car? Isn't cool to find these bits of a cars history?

Greg Roberts

[copo9566aa]

Hi Greg
Yes the body number match the car...
This is a Nova 6 Cyl VIN 113279W52.....
tag 11427 Bdy 47....
Fisher B Sheet 11427 Bdy 47....
GM preview a Box (12) for COPO and F & SO Stuff

[68SS396]

Greg;
Here is a Fisher Body card that I found in my LA Camaro. It lists a few options as well as the Body number and color and trim. I have not found any other sheets anywhere in the car, but then again, I have not disassembled it to go looking. I did check under the carpets and rear seats and was told the gas tank had been out of the car but no sheet was ever found.
Bill

[Nova Research Project]

68SS396;

Nice find. Another example of plant specific differences.

Greg Roberts

[supercomp 8.90]

my buddy found his build sheet on his l.a. ss-350 camaro on top of the gas tank about a month ago!!! low mile car, tank i guess was never pulled.

[Supercar_Kid]

Thanks for the info Greg, very informative. The Fisher Body/Chevrolet sheet distinction makes it all much clearer to me now. But a Fisher Body sheet won't tell you anything about engine and chassis components correct...just a body or job# and a interior trim style. It's the Chevrolet sheet that is integral in confirming or disconfirming a car's drivetrain components then. The only build sheet I've been lucky enough to personally discover, was a full Chevrolet sheet w/ all option codes spray glued to the backside of a Baltimore built '70 SS396 Chevelle door panel. The only rub was that it was on a used door panel I picked up at a swap meet and the car was long gone. I would imagine Fisher sheets are much more common to find as they would most likely be the ones left inside a vehicle and away from the elements? Does anyone know if it is common to find a build sheet glued to the backside of a door panel like this on Baltimore built Chevelles?

[olredalert]

------Way back when I was getting "Red Alert" re-readied for the drag-strip in 1990 I pulled the drivers seat out to get a small seam seperation fixed. When we turned the seat upside down there was the full build sheet stuffed in-between the springs. Upon removing it we found that the build sheet was for a car 5 serial numbers off, a convertable to boot! Your explanation of the reason why is the best I have heard. Thanks for answering a very old question............Bill S

[Mr70]

Among the 7 plants that built the Chevelles,it is more common to find a buildsheet on the backside doorpanel of a Baltimore built Chevelle.Kansas Leeds plant was more into stuffing them into the rear seat pad,but some found them behind the door panel too.Arlington liked the garbage Can mostly,but did send a few of them out with them under the carpet.
Bottom line,"Search Everywhere!"

[1967Z28]

On my green '67 Z, I found the Fisher seat tag like the one posted above and the body number was for another car. Greg's explanation makes a lot of sense. My car was supposed to have headrest buckets but they didn't get installed. The car came with the headrests but no slot in the buckets to install them. The car is very close to the end of production (less than 60 cars from the end) so maybe they were just using up what was left. The sales invoice shows a credit for the headrests although the window sticker and cowl tag show the headrests. In the same car, I found a big sheet under the front carpet called a Uniform Option Identification Tag. It basically deciphered all the codes on the cowl tag including the ones to show the Z28 option and the headrest seats. I have heard of these UOITs being above the headliners and even sandwiched between the metal in the roof sail panel area. These must have been Fisher Body sheets and could be literally anywhere in the car from the firewall on back.

-Jon

1967 Z28 street car
1967 Z28 Trans-Am race car
1967 Z28 Registry