This Tag is on a 69 Convertible that I have been offered .Acouple of funny???

ST 69 12467 LOS 173336 BDY

TR 725 57 D

11 B K322


WHAT DOES THE K322 STAND FOR

k322 was a internal plant code used in the los factory plants. no one knows.

I know.

It was the 322nd body scheduled to be built on the K production day. Which was the 11th working day of the build month. Roughly November 18th 1968.

Mark,

You probably have enough data in the registry to publish some kind of guide for this? For instance, my 68 (05d) is R561. I'm assuming you can narrow this down to a day?

Ed

I can do your particular date (need to go look at a calendar for May of 68) but an index with all the dateson it would probably help the fakers more than anyone else. If anyone has a question on a tag they can post it here, on the CRG forum, or email anyone of the CRG members with the info and we'll respond off line.

I know.

It was the 322nd body scheduled to be built on the K production day. Which was the 11th working day of the build month. Roughly November 18th 1968.

Mark, is this a new interpretation just figured out? Because it seems the stock answer has been "who knows what it means".

Not new to the CRG guys. Been mentioned here and elsewhere by numerous people for at least a couple of years when ever it comes up.

Mark,

I have a feeling you're going to get flooded with requests (including mine)! So here are the Calendars you're going to need:

1966 (http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/index.html?year=1966&country=1)

1967 (http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/index.html?year=1967&country=1)

1968 (http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/?year=1968&country=1)

1969 (http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/index.html?year=1969&country=1)

Remember, I was first though!!! R561, 05D (4th week of May, 1968).

Ed

Not new to the CRG guys. Been mentioned here and elsewhere by numerous people for at least a couple of years when ever it comes up.

I figured it was not news to the CRG guys. But I read Tag Team religiously and have never seen an answer like you gave. At best someone says "internal scheduling code":clonk:

Mark,


Remember, I was first though!!! R561, 05D (4th week of May, 1968).

Ed


So this one would be the 561st body scheduled to be built May 24th, 1968?

R being the 18th working day of May.

Yep, R561 would be a Friday May 24th car, probably started around mid afternoon. (LA W/O numbers rarely go above 750 to 800)

WOW! A Friday afternoon! There goes the old wives tale that states only Wednesday cars survive!!

Thanks guys.

Ed

I thoughtr I read they only built about 500 cars a day including the big cars. so is that an average and some days they built as many as 800. And I guess the body build numbers include big cars as well. So what day in Nov 68 would N670 be? As far as publishing a list, I understand 67, but why would anyone fake a 68 or 69. If it is just to change color or interior code they would just use the same numbers for the other stuff.

Monday 11/18/68 give or take a day.

Obviously if you have a tag with 670 on it then they must have built more than 500 cars a day. LA build around 250 Camaros a day, on top of that there were Chevrolets and Impalas on the Chevy line. Then there were firebirds and god knows what else on the Pontiac line. I've seen an LA tag with a W/O number greater than 900 on it but don't know if that was on a day they worked more than 2 shifts or if that was a reqular occurance.

Mark,

Okay, a question on sequential order. Since the LA plant built big cars as well as Camaro's, what would be the numbering sequence?

In other words, let's say the first Camaro built on such and such a day is R001. The next car happens to be the first Impala. Would it also have R001 or would it be R002? Get my drift? So I guess my question is did they use one set of numbers for Camaro's and another set (albeit the same sequence) for big cars, or did they just continue on with the next number, no matter what the model was?

Ed

Sequential order regardless of the model vehicle being built. R001 could be a Camaro, R002 could be an Impala, R003 could be a Chevrolet, R004 could be a Firebird. They didn't have to be cycled thru like this, R001 thru 004 could just have likely have been all Camaros, followed by a batch of Chevrolets then Impalas. Would assume they were scheduled based on their exterior colors, so that a batch of say white cars were built followed by some other color, and so on.

That's what I figured. Just wanted to make sure.

Thanks
Ed

Thanks Mark for the monday the 18th date. And it is an 11c car.

What is the VIN of the K322 car in New Zealand?