[RS3SDL2MG]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...483899885&rd=1


It is the EARLIEST production camaro i have ever seen. OF THE SEVERAL MILLION CAMAROS BUILT,

[DjD]

In '69 they made around 240,000 camaros. After 35 years if the avg was 100,000 per year that would come to 3.5 million camaros. [img]graemlins/beers.gif[/img] Hard to imagine that many, isn't it?

[chicane67]

Geez.....if he only knew what the Fisher Body number really meant......

If it were that easy.....I have him beat. I have number 19.

[DjD]

Tom - the ad lists the VIN, not the cowl tag. They show "7N10083" which should probably be "N100083", right?

[Vintage 68]

"This car is vin#83(it was built the VERY FIRST DAY OF CAMARO PRODUCTION Sept 26, 1966 at the Norwood, Ohio Plant)."

Van Nuys started regular production in early August (7th ?) 1966. Did Norwood follow ???
Cars were at our local Dealer 'Chapman Chevrolet' in Calif. on Sept. 21st 1966 - we went over for the, invitation only, open house they hosted that evening when my father got home from work (that part of the memory works well still...)
Dad bought a new car from them every year or two for 30+ years. We always got invited to the new model previews - it was a big thing 'back-in-the-day'.

Car seems to have some undisclosed 'integrity issues' - after viewing the areas around the rear wheel houses and tail pan, and who knows what danger lurks under the carpeting and in the trunk...
Guess you'd be foolish to expect anything less from an 'right coast' vehicle.

Boy - if I could only find #82 - just think what it is worth

[DjD]

Chalk it up to everyone being an expert and all camaros are rare. If it's #100083 on the vin it's #83 right? The auction started at $100 with no reserve, buyers/bidders are setting the price on this one not the seller.

[chicane67]

The delevery date on my protect-o plate states 12-16-1966 to Chase Chevrolet, in Stockton California.

It was built late November and was the 19th, L30/M20 off of the Los Angles assembly line.

[red69camaro]

my Dad bought one in Sept of 66. It was even titled as a 66.

If I knew then what I know now, I guess I wouldn't have beat it like a dog when I was in my mid teens.

Yeah right!

[67ss350camaro]

Van Nuys started regular production in early August (7th ?) 1966. Did Norwood follow ???

Other way around. Norwood what the lead plant. Norwood started a couple of weeks earlier than Van Nuys. Both stared in August.
Believe it or not CRG has data on two cars with earlier vin#s. I have asked for the cowl tag data for this car, but no response.

[67ss350camaro]

was the 19th, L30/M20 off of the Los Angles assembly line.

And how do you figure that???

[Scott Taylor]

There is something wrong with those numbers. A 2 digit VIN would have had a build date of 08C or 08D not a build date in September. My car has a VIN of L1003xx and is an 08E build date.

[Vintage 68]

Originally posted by 67ss350camaro:

Other way around. Norwood what the lead plant. Norwood started a couple of weeks earlier than Van Nuys. Both stared in August.

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I totaly agree Dan. Norwood was first.
I knew that Norwood had the first Tooling sets and ran the first test production.
But, in his add statment he said Norwood built "His #83 car" in late Sept. 1966 ??? I knew this couldn't be right and really was just poking fun at his claims.

Many moons ago (@ 1972~73) I ran across a file at the Van Nuys plant that showed an 'F-body Final Assembly' product start date as Aug 7th, 1966. Maybe or it was misstated and should have read 17th ??? But the date was the 7th on the forms. It was pertaining to 'Labor Hours' and in a Labor accounting file so maybe this was some tooling test assembly/training time or ???
It wasn't my group or dept. so I didn't really think anything of it at the time, other that it was an interesting piece of data.
Knowing all those files were transfered to Mich. or distroyed really bugs me now, there could have been some interesting data to be mined in them.

[Mark C]

I've seen 7L100016, and 7N100013. Those are VIN's not body numbers.

Who can guess the build week stamped on the Cowl tag of 7N100013 (except Daniel cause he knows)? Hint; it's not in August. I guess I should add that this car was a pilot car, not a production car.

[paulm]

I'll guess July!!


Oh, you wanted week....How about second week of July!!

[Mark C]

Not even close.