Code Y16 ?

[Mikke H]

Decoder says Y16 Sales Bank Car vhats is a Sales Bank Car ?

 

[Mr Gorsky]

A car that was ordered for showroom stock.

IE: was not ordered by a retail customer.

 

[Mikke H]

A car that was ordered for showroom stock.

IE: was not ordered by a retail customer.

Thank you for your reply .Build Date 8/02/1969 that is that early produktion ?

 

[69Coronetrt]

Thank you for your reply .Build Date 8/02/1969 that is that early produktion ?

Yes. This car must have a very low VIN say in the 100*** range.

Sounds like a car that was built to help get new model year inventory to dealers.

Do you have a pic of the tag?

 

[Mikke H]

Picking upp the car tomorrow just bought it will post pix later .

 

[Mikke H]

Vin 100430.

 

[Herman]

Sales bank vehicles were ordered by and built to keep the factory running and meet production bonus goals, these vehicles were not ordered by a dealer or customer. The vehicles were held in factory lots (ie, the Michigan Fair Grounds) for later sale to dealers. This could result in some strange equipment and color trim combinations as they built to what was available for production not necessarily what would sell. Regional sales offices then had the job of selling these vehicles to the dealers.

 

[69Coronetrt]

If you are in business to sell things, why would you waste the time and resources to build things that would not sell?

What are you defining as "strange" within the sales bank realm? I can see a mistake made to an ordered car winding up as a sales bank car but to assert sales bank cars were intentionally built not necessarily to sell is an assertion that will require some proof.

 

[Photon440]

I think he's saying that those extra cars were built to use up parts first, selling them was someone else s job. For example, if the factory found that it had too many burnt orange interiors in stock, they might use them up on sales bank cars even if nobody was ordering them at the time.

 

[GetX'd]

You learn something new everyday on this forum. Never heard of a sales bank car

 

[Herman]

The plant manager controlled production and was payed on number of vehicles built, also from a cost view workers received a large percent of there wages during layoffs so banking cars made some sense. Chrysler's strongest markets were in the Northeast US where seasonal sales were and still are the norm, slow winter sales strong spring sales, so building vehicles to bank also made sense. Equipment wise it was not common for them to build strange combinations like base 4 door sedans with road wheels, or E bodies with bench seats.

 

[BL1 70 RR]

My roadrunner is a sales bank car, it came with a burnt orange interior, sand pebble beige exterior paint and a white vynl top.

 

[Lowhound]

My 70 Bee was a sales bank car & was loaded with numerous options with the exception of power windows.

 

[68BabyBlue]

The '69 hemi road runner that our dealer in State College took a year to sell was a sales bank car, built in the last week of the model year. Nicely optioned automatic car, R4 red with buckets and console.

 

[69hurstsc]

Did you ever take a photo of the fender tag?

 

[68BabyBlue]

Did you ever take a photo of the fender tag?

No. I learned the history from my former brother-in-law, who was the service manager at the dealership, and also drove a '69 Hemi Road Runner as a company car. It was a Lynch Road car, so I don't think it would have shown Y16 on the tag. My special order dealer demonstrator GTX from Lynch Road shows both Y13, and Y14 on all the factory paper work, but nothing on the fender tag.