My '69 Z28 Find

[MosportGreen66]

and cap

[Lemans69]

Subframe and suspension painted white???

[MosportGreen66]

Here is what I can make out from enlarging the photos on my Mac...

Model - 12437
Paint - 71 71
Trim - 729
Box 31 - 5
Box 32 - 6
Box 36 - 0
Box 38 - 9
Dealer - 218
Order # or FSO # - NBH293 (?)
Zone - 10
Engine - DZ
Transmission - XF
Axel - BU
Identification - 158440

Does anyone have a decoder for the non-obvious?

[MosportGreen66]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Lemans69</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Subframe and suspension painted white??? </div></div>

The control arm shafts yes, done in car, but otherwise there is no white paint. overspray from the job is evident and seen in the photo.

[Lemans69]

Thanks Dan, I can't wait to see the engine compartment after cleaning. What a great car!!!

[SuperNovaSS]

Excellent Find! I know you have been looking for awhile. This shows that patience pays off!


Jason

[resto4u]

What was the IBM card used for? First step of the car order? Was the build sheet printed from the IBM card? Must be rare to find one, if they used the buildsheet to build the car.

[PeteLeathersac]

I think I've mentioned this here in the past but late 60's when I was a kid we lived in Oshawa GM Canada town and my dad used to bring these IBM cards home to use as paper or other stuff...like our bicycle spokes held w/ clothespins!.
Dad was an electrical-mechanical engineer / math-physics guru who had quit the business world to teach school and was head of math at one of the large Oshawa high schools..
He was into computers then and had been since the 50's although besides big business there was little going on w/ them in the late 60's..
I have no idea how he was ending up w/ the IBM cards but being they were lose you'd expect whatever they were used for at the GM plant was over after the cars were built also not usually left in cars?.

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~ Pete

[bergy]

Those IBM cards were what we used to program the computers with! All the students at General Motors Institute had to learn &quot;FORTRAN IV&quot;. Each step in the program sequence had to be punched onto those cards and read into the computer. Raw data was also fed into the computers on punch cards. If you wanted to computer to &quot;know&quot; all of the build options on a car, a keypunch operator had to punch out an IBM card from the list provided. After the cards were read by the computer, the inventory requirements were calculated for the rolling build schedule. God I'm old!
Pete - I visited the St Catherines MCP many time when I was Supt of Production at Tonawanda MCP. It was pretty common knowledge in GM that St Catherines MCP was the most efficient and best quality foundry in GM.

[PeteLeathersac]

Cool info Bergy!.
Did you work w/ Fran P. at Tonawanda?.

So how/where/why would an IBM card end up in any vehicle especially the one it belongs to?.
Sporadic spot checks to confirm all's flowing correctly?.

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~ Pete