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Curious..What number is printed on the very bottom right of each of your 3 buildsheets?
It should be incapsulated by a bunch of perforated holes.
Like the letter C.

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Greg;
Here is a Fisher Body card that I found in my LA Camaro. It lists a few options as well as the Body number and color and trim. I have not found any other sheets anywhere in the car, but then again, I have not disassembled it to go looking. I did check under the carpets and rear seats and was told the gas tank had been out of the car but no sheet was ever found.
Bill

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Rick, of the two I have out of the car already, neither one has any numbers in the right hand corner https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/dunno.gif. WHen I cut the hog ring and remove the third we'll see if it is there although I beleve they were carbon type copies so it may not be there as well.Was this a 70 or 69 thing?? I will be cutting it out later today.

ALbert

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Thanks for the info Greg, very informative. The Fisher Body/Chevrolet sheet distinction makes it all much clearer to me now. But a Fisher Body sheet won't tell you anything about engine and chassis components correct...just a body or job# and a interior trim style. It's the Chevrolet sheet that is integral in confirming or disconfirming a car's drivetrain components then. The only build sheet I've been lucky enough to personally discover, was a full Chevrolet sheet w/ all option codes spray glued to the backside of a Baltimore built '70 SS396 Chevelle door panel. The only rub was that it was on a used door panel I picked up at a swap meet and the car was long gone. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/frown.gif I would imagine Fisher sheets are much more common to find as they would most likely be the ones left inside a vehicle and away from the elements? Does anyone know if it is common to find a build sheet glued to the backside of a door panel like this on Baltimore built Chevelles?

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------Way back when I was getting "Red Alert" re-readied for the drag-strip in 1990 I pulled the drivers seat out to get a small seam seperation fixed. When we turned the seat upside down there was the full build sheet stuffed in-between the springs. Upon removing it we found that the build sheet was for a car 5 serial numbers off, a convertable to boot! Your explanation of the reason why is the best I have heard. Thanks for answering a very old question............Bill S

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Among the 7 plants that built the Chevelles,it is more common to find a buildsheet on the backside doorpanel of a Baltimore built Chevelle.Kansas Leeds plant was more into stuffing them into the rear seat pad,but some found them behind the door panel too.Arlington liked the garbage Can mostly,but did send a few of them out with them under the carpet.
Bottom line,"Search Everywhere!" https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ns/naughty.gif

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Greg, My 68 Gibb-Harrell Nova had one hog ringed in the right top corner in the back seat. Kim https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/flag.gif

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Friend of mines 69 Nova SS had one hog ringed in the upper rear seat as well (drivers side)

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On my green '67 Z, I found the Fisher seat tag like the one posted above and the body number was for another car. Greg's explanation makes a lot of sense. My car was supposed to have headrest buckets but they didn't get installed. The car came with the headrests but no slot in the buckets to install them. The car is very close to the end of production (less than 60 cars from the end) so maybe they were just using up what was left. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/dunno.gif The sales invoice shows a credit for the headrests although the window sticker and cowl tag show the headrests. In the same car, I found a big sheet under the front carpet called a Uniform Option Identification Tag. It basically deciphered all the codes on the cowl tag including the ones to show the Z28 option and the headrest seats. I have heard of these UOITs being above the headliners and even sandwiched between the metal in the roof sail panel area. These must have been Fisher Body sheets and could be literally anywhere in the car from the firewall on back.

-Jon

1967 Z28 street car
1967 Z28 Trans-Am race car
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I was lucky enough that my Arlington built LS5 70 Velle had a build sheet. It must have been under the carpet cause it was badly soiled but still readable.