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Old 02-10-2020, 03:15 PM
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LOL - they (we) took breaks :-) 15 minutes in the morning and afternoon plus 30 minute lunch & bathroom breaks in between. They worked hard though - tedious work. Good people. I'd love to know the VIN of the subject IPC. I'll bet that William is correct and it was an expedited order right at the end of IPC production.

It was the supervisor that I was interested in speaking to. We probably knew the same people. Cliff Vaughn was the PM when I was there. It's such a small world. A guy came up to me at Cars on 5th last Saturday & offered me an original Tonawanda valve cover sticker. I asked him where he got it - turns out that he was superintendent of production at the Tonawanda motor plant when I was superintendent at the foundry. I didn't recognize him until we introduced ourselves! Kinda like going back to a high school reunion after 40 years - who are these people?!
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Old 02-10-2020, 04:02 PM
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Yea LOL! Strange things happened at Norwood. This is a sample from the Book I am working on now. Yes in the early 80's guys were working the line in Toga's

Who are these people?

I have and continue to do my best to meet them and learn the human side of how our cars were built. In a word-Fascinating!
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Old 02-10-2020, 09:08 PM
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Sorry, this is making a mountain out of nothing. I see no errors.
The body # looks fine for that week, a little high but nothing notable.
VIN is 9N6480xx. Looks fine too.
I agree with Bill, it was a late Z11 order that was prioritized. Be interesting to know if it was a normal customer or someone with contacts. We'll never know.

I ordered a car once and the order was refused - too late in the year to build it. Talked to my plant scheduler and he call the assy plant and the order was accepted.
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Old 02-10-2020, 09:48 PM
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So would this be the latest 69 Pace Car built???
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Old 02-10-2020, 11:03 PM
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Sorry, this is making a mountain out of nothing. I see no errors.
The body # looks fine for that week, a little high but nothing notable.
VIN is 9N6480xx. Looks fine too.
I agree with Bill, it was a late Z11 order that was prioritized. Be interesting to know if it was a normal customer or someone with contacts. We'll never know.

I ordered a car once and the order was refused - too late in the year to build it. Talked to my plant scheduler and he call the assy plant and the order was accepted.
Excellent! Now that's what I call progress.

Looks like the hobby will now acknowledge 05-C as the end point for the Z-11.
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Old 02-11-2020, 03:17 AM
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It's clearly an outlier in the data.
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Do you have access to the known Pace Car VINs Kurt? If so, is this the last one?
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It's clearly an outlier in the data.
Agreed 100%
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Old 02-11-2020, 03:55 PM
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Yea LOL! Strange things happened at Norwood. This is a sample from the Book I am working on now. Yes in the early 80's guys were working the line in Toga's

Who are these people?

I have and continue to do my best to meet them and learn the human side of how our cars were built. In a word-Fascinating!

HaHa, did the same kind of thing go on at Van Nuys? If so, that might explain how my 69 ended up with a Pontiac Firebird deluxe seat bottom and jack instruction sticker!
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Old 02-11-2020, 07:06 PM
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Yes, this is the last known pacer VIN.
(I know of a fake Z11 tag on a later VIN - lots of issues with that car)
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