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Just wondering if someone can help me with scheduled production dates...

My car is a 1970 GTX

For example, my tag reads A17, meaning Oct 17th...but how does one know if that was in late '69 (most likely) or late '70...I guess one could assume that they aren't building 1970 models as late as Oct of that year, but how does one really know?
 
I believe the letter is the give away. A, B, C would indicate 69 because 1, 2, 3... is reserved for Jan, Feb, Mar... the following year. I think I got that right but if not someone will chime in.
 
Exactly as you have stated above.

The new model year back in those days started with dealer unveiling of new models on October 1st or the first monday of the month. In the case of your 1970 model in 1969.

The assembly plants shut down for new model change over in mid July. Sometimes earlier depending on how big the changes were to a plant as in adding a new line (E bodies in 1970) or if they were converting a plant from one model line to another.

Production began for the next model year on August 1st with post preduction limited models on a slow line to work out any bugs on the line. As soon as this was accomplished they began building cars for magazine photo shoots and for dealer new car showings that happened in late August/early July where the dealers saw the new cars for the first time and made their intitial stock orders for the Oct 1st public showing.
 
I believe the letter is the give away. A, B, C would indicate 69 because 1, 2, 3... is reserved for Jan, Feb, Mar... the following year. I think I got that right but if not someone will chime in.

And yes, that is correct.
 
Right, they went 1-9 for Jan through Sept, and A, B, C for Oct, Nov, and Dec.

Oct of '70 is way too late for a 70 model. They would've been cranking out 71's by that point. I think the cutoff was around July or August. Does your ride have a door sticker on it? Those will have the year on it.
 
I believe the letter is the give away. A, B, C would indicate 69 because 1, 2, 3... is reserved for Jan, Feb, Mar... the following year. I think I got that right but if not someone will chime in.

Exactly as you have stated above.

The new model year back in those days started with dealer unveiling of new models on October 1st or the first monday of the month. In the case of your 1970 model in 1969.

The assembly plants shut down for new model change over in mid July. Sometimes earlier depending on how big the changes were to a plant as in adding a new line (E bodies in 1970) or if they were converting a plant from one model line to another.

Production began for the next model year on August 1st with post preduction limited models on a slow line to work out any bugs on the line. As soon as this was accomplished they began building cars for magazine photo shoots and for dealer new car showings that happened in late August/early July where the dealers saw the new cars for the first time and made their intitial stock orders for the Oct 1st public showing.

Right, they went 1-9 for Jan through Sept, and A, B, C for Oct, Nov, and Dec.

Oct of '70 is way too late for a 70 model. They would've been cranking out 71's by that point. I think the cutoff was around July or August. Does your ride have a door sticker on it? Those will have the year on it.

Thanks guys...kind of what I thought but wasn't sure...it would be way too late to be built in Oct of 70....wasn't sure what the cut off was on the prod line...

Thanks, Interesting!
 
throw a wrench in things

Just for thought....if a tag was stamped 717, and the car was a 1970...that would mean it could be either July 17, 1969 or July 17, 1970...what would a guy go on then??

Just before the cut-off date would make it a litlle tougher I guess...
 
Just for thought....if a tag was stamped 717, and the car was a 1970...that would mean it could be either July 17, 1969 or July 17, 1970...what would a guy go on then??

Just before the cut-off date would make it a litlle tougher I guess...

A 1970 model car with a SPD on the tag or 717 would be July of 1970.
 
A 1970 model car with a SPD on the tag or 717 would be July of 1970.

One more question then 6 pak...what's SPD stand for?

Thanks for your help, this is interesting...
 
A 1970 model car with a SPD on the tag or 717 would be July of 1970.

1969's era pilot cars could have a mid July SPD also but the VIN would be VERY low. Something like 1000XX.

I have a 69 model year STL pilot car on file that actually has an earlier SPD than the latest 1968 models.
 
SPD is scheduled production date and as far as I know that doesn't necessarily mean the car was actually built that day. 696 can elaborate further...
 
1969's era pilot cars could have a mid July SPD also but the VIN would be VERY low. Something like 1000XX.

I have a 69 model year STL pilot car on file that actually has an earlier SPD than the latest 1968 models.

Would the sequence number also be a indicator of when it was built, in other words if it was a low sequence number- earlier in the year, higher- later in the year? Or does that have any bearing on the build date? I guess you'd have to know the start of the sequence numbers for the year...do they zero each new "production" year..??
 
1969's era pilot cars could have a mid July SPD also but the VIN would be VERY low. Something like 1000XX.

I have a 69 model year STL pilot car on file that actually has an earlier SPD than the latest 1968 models.

Yes Doug I can see that happenening on the TAG but not in reality. If we were there the day that both or those cars were built it would be a perfect example of SCHEDULED production date rather than the actual day they were built. There is no way possible that with the line up and running for the 1969 model year that a 1968 model could have ACTUALLY been built. That 1968 car was obviously buit PRIOR to it's scheduled production date. If the St. Louis plant was making just the very basic changes required between 68 AND 69 models I could see a very short down time for that plant during model change over.
 
Would the sequence number also be a indicator of when it was built, in other words if it was a low sequence number- earlier in the year, higher- later in the year?Yes

.......do they zero each new "production" year..??Yes. All VINs are reset to 100001 at the beginning of the model production year. Pilot cars have the lowest VINs
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