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Originally Posted by William
Looks like all were E3
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William,
Your posting of the 1968 Chevrolet new vehicle inspection & adjustment schedule form is quite interesting. I first noticed just a couple differences in that of the #37 car. Build dates & a miner difference of having a 3 in the transmission code? By chance, You wouldn't have a shot of the green tag from this car? From the VIN number of posted schedule, according to my documents this would be from #49 of the 50? Helen Gibb wound up with the #50 car located in Gladstone, MO. The last 20 of this lot were paint coded EE being Fathom Blue. The engine code on #37 shows TO621E3.The transmission code on this car, however shows 68C100? The rear axle code shows BV0619G. The difference in the transmission code having the 68C103 I don't understand the being a difference? Long ago, research was done the found novas with this documentation, & the findings were that this 68C100 was the first part of the transmission serial number? I don't remember specially since a lot of the information on others was misplaced, car #37 had the lowest serial number of CY 1005 while the highest found was CY 1041. This seems to say that these Gibb cars transmissions had serial numbers ranging from CY 1001 To Cy 1050? William, this is just my theory, but have no proof? We know for sure, they were the first aromatics to be harnessed to a high performance, solid lifter engines in the first 2 weeks of July 1968. Documents from NHRA files, showing all 50 were built and delivered to Gibb Chevrolet by July 15.
William, I realize this thread was started mostly about the ZL-1's and not trying to high jack that information, but there is quite a bit of information about the COPO Nova's that need addressing for public interests that we can discuss about these once called "Mystery Nova's? Ray