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Received My Chrysler Historical Build Record - Curious About Canadian Dealer Code

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Got my Historical Build Record punch card image today for my '67 Satellite. Not bad quality, not great.

I'm fairly certain that my car has spent its whole life in Canada, so wondering from other Canadian owners, if anyone knows which dealer it may have been?

Region is 26, Dealer code is C9353.

It's a neat item to have, but not sure if there are any resources on the net for decoding these, since Historical won't provide that anymore.
 
Don67Satellite said:
Got my Historical Build Record punch card image today for my '67 Satellite. Not bad quality, not great.

I'm fairly certain that my car has spent its whole life in Canada, so wondering from other Canadian owners, if anyone knows which dealer it may have been?

Region is 26, Dealer code is C9353.

It's a neat item to have, but not sure if there are any resources on the net for decoding these, since Historical won't provide that anymore.
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If you have a 6 under the w in the top row it was built for Canadian Sales. Chrysler Historical told me that they don’t have any records on Canadian sold cars.
You could try calling a dealer and ask.
 
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Interesting. The cover email when they sent mine for the '66, the only thing they did decipher and tell me was the selling dealer.

Reminds me, they never did do my '64.
 
dadsbee said:
Interesting. The cover email when they sent mine for the '66, the only thing they did decipher and tell me was the selling dealer.

Reminds me, they never did do my '64.
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"Thank you for your patience while we work through our orders. Attached please find the copy of the build card for your vehicle. Unfortunately, the selling dealer code was not located in our files."

So they don't even know who it was. :screwy:
 
Don67Satellite said:
Got my Historical Build Record punch card image today for my '67 Satellite. Not bad quality, not great.

I'm fairly certain that my car has spent its whole life in Canada, so wondering from other Canadian owners, if anyone knows which dealer it may have been?

Region is 26, Dealer code is C9353.

It's a neat item to have, but not sure if there are any resources on the net for decoding these, since Historical won't provide that anymore.
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Contact Dave at Maxwedge.com and see if he has any info on dealers in Canada....maxwedge.com


It's not Canadian built, was built at Lynch Rd. Yes, if it was Canadian built they wouldn't even have the punch card that they sent me.

He meant built for sale in Canada. Not built IN Canada.
 
Don67Satellite said:
"Thank you for your patience while we work through our orders. Attached please find the copy of the build card for your vehicle. Unfortunately, the selling dealer code was not located in our files."

So they don't even know who it was. :screwy:
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I got exactly the same message with my card. My region was 16 and the dealer code was 92835. I have been told that dealer codes starting in 9 were Chrysler regional office cars.
 
I got mine a few months back. And she told me the code and name of selling dealer. The rest I need to get decoded.
 
As an update, I still have not figured out for certain the dealer or region codes as of today. I took some of the above advice and contacted the people at Maxwedge awhile back , but no reply so far.

The Canadian dealer codes that I have seen listed on the net (very few) that begin with a "C" seem to get progressively larger as the locations go west. With that analogy, my dealer code makes me semi confident it's a British Columbia dealership.

But now on to the evening's fun...

With a bit of sleuthing on the interwebs, I have found the recipe on how to read the IBM punch cards and decode them. Was able to do mine this evening.

Basically tells me a lot of what I already knew via the fender tag and whatnot, but it was fun to go through the columns and decode it myself.

One day I will find the Canadian dealer codes. There's a dealership in my hometown that's been in business and owned by the same family since the 50's/60's so I may hit them up on my next visit to the rock.
 
Good news! Still trying to figure mine out *hint hint* ;)

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Here's a nice template somone put togtether. Look at a column. If the number 8 is punched out in say column 17, that decodes to sales option or sales code 178. If you have two numbers punched out in one column, that gives you a letter for things like interior codes.


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qkcuda said:
I got exactly the same message with my card. My region was 16 and the dealer code was 92835. I have been told that dealer codes starting in 9 were Chrysler regional office cars.
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That dealer list @guy gadbois posted a link to has some very close to yours, but no cigar, yet.

92831 Natick Dodge Inc. 1360 Worcester Natick, MA (sold to Chrysler Motors)
92844 Chrysler Motors Corporation P.O. Box 1259 Detroit, MI
92861 Chrysler Motors Corporation P.O. Box 1259 Detroit, MI
92894 Hamtramck Executive Garage 79xx Jos Campau Hamt.Mich
 
Getting closer. Just found this thanks to @PeugFra over on C-Bodies. "Zone" looks like the Regions. My region 26 is Zone 26 Canada-Pacific!

Maybe this helps. It's from the 2008 Sales Codes list, but the geographical US regions from 31 upwards fit the 1986 Dealer Directory.


Zone 10-Export
Zone 11-Chrysler Corporation-Consign
Zone 12-Fleet-Lease
Zone 13-Chrysler Credit
Zone 14-Fleet-Demo
Zone 15-Chrysler Corporation-Misc
Zone 16-Chrysler Corporation-Asg
Zone 19-U.S.Built For Mexico Sales
Zone 21-Canada-Ontario
Zone 22-Canada-Quebec
Zone 23-Canada-Atlantic
Zone 24-Canada-Prairie
Zone 25-Canada-Alberta
Zone 26-Canada-Pacific
Zone 29-Canada-Fleet/Lease
Zone 31-Boston
Zone 32-New York
Zone 33-Philadelphia
Zone 35-Washington
Zone 41-Cincinatti
Zone 42-Detroit
Zone 43-Pittsburgh
Zone 44-Syracuse
Zone 51-Chicago
Zone 52-Kansas City
Zone 53-Minneapolis
Zone 54-St Louis
Zone 55-Milwaukee
Zone 61-Atlanta
Zone 62-Houston
Zone 63-Dallas
Zone 64-Memphis
Zone 65-New Orleans
Zone 66-Orlando
Zone 67-Charlotte
Zone 69-Phoenix
Zone 71-Los Angeles
Zone 72-Portland
Zone 73-San Francisco
Zone 74-Denver
Zone 88-Unassigned Inventory
Zone 91-Drop Ship
 
Thanks for the list. Mine is 16. Any idea what Chrysler Corporation Asg means?
 
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