[Pantera]

I started to undertake this same project but was educated by those that had tried this before me not to waste my time.

Chev and GM uper managment has no die hard car guys like years ago. They are fighting for their lives right now. You will get nowhere with them. They are only concerned about their job and how to keep it.

This same project has been tried not once but 3 different times in the last 15 years, by the NCRS (Corvette Collectors) and if someone like them, with their direct line into Chev can't make it happen then the slim chance that anyone else, and not as well conected will succede is perchance doomed before you even get started. I was informed that the then head of Chev tried to find the records and they just don't exist anymore.

We have to stop and consider that we are acustomed to a computer world and what we want is not on a computer but was recorded on punch cards and they took up too much room and were pitched years ago since nobody could forsee a future need for the details of the info that they contained.

I know this sounds hard to understand but there have been major changes in the record keeping world in the last 35 years. That is a long time to hord huge amounts of paperwork with little or no value. The old plants have been abandoned and or destroyed along with the records they contained that were pitched long ago. Chev division outsold every other division by a huge amount and we have to remember the little transactions of every car or truck sold by them would be intermixed in those paper records.

The only remaining records are totals of what sold with what options so that future directors could use that info to make better decisions by looking at the past mistakes and or successes. The detail of who bought what and with what options was not deemed necessary to retain and also someone would have had to go back through huge amounts of paper files to compile it on to a newer computer and it just was not done.

I have it on good authority that there are many that are working on this project still. All we in the hobby can hope for is that somewhere, somehow, there are the records we long for. After 1970 there may be a chance of some computer records but before that the chance is slim.

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