[SCG] Build Tag Mystery

[Bill Hubbell]

I suppose I should decode the build sheet for those of you interested in
that sort of thing.

Reading from the upper left corner:
Sequence: 334 (I have no idea what this means)
Broadcast: Mo.: 03 Day: 03 (March 3, 1965)
Job:   (blank)
Style: 10539 (Monza 4-door hardtop sedan)
Body No. 022058 (22,508th 4-door body build for 1965)
Trim: 713 (Black Imitation Leather)
Seat B (Color code for black interior paint)
Paint KK (Artesian Turquoise top and bottom - no Accent color)

First Group - Blank (no options, meaning no tinted glass or windshield)
Second Group 2L (Four Speed transmission and NO A/C, rear speaker, or rear
antenna)
Third Group Blank (NO padded dash)
Fourth Group 4PU (Comfort and Convenience group Z01 and Spare Tire Lock)
Fifth Group L (MYSTERY CODE!!)

F&SO - COPO

And then on the bottom, 
10539 - 022056 (looks like body sequence number 2 cars before this one)
10539 - 007958713  (No idea)

Also, I have attached a photo of the Fisher body tag from Geoff's car, so
you can plainly see the differences between his car and the build sheet.

Bill Hubbell

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From: scg-list-bounces at tiger.skiblack.com
[mailto:scg-list-bounces at tiger.skiblack.com] On Behalf Of Bill Hubbell
Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2008 11:17 PM
To: Stock Corvair Group
Subject: [SCG] Build Tag Mystery

    
I am putting new seat covers on my son's 1965 seats.  As I opened up the
upper part of the Driver's bucket, I was pleased to find a build sheet stuck
inside (Car Seats 016.jpg).  

However, after insecting the sheet (Car Seats 025.jpg), it is obviously NOT
the sheet for his car, which is a convertible, as this sheet is for a
4-door.  

OK, I know that after 40+ years seats may have been changed, although the
build date (03-03-65) is in the same week as my son's car (03A on the Fisher
tag).  That got me to thinking, "Why would the build sheet be stuck inside
the finished seat, anyway?"  You would think that Fisher would have wanted
the build sheet to be available during the body assembly, and yet, once the
seat top is sealed up you can't exactly get to it.  So what exactly was
going on here?  Did Fisher only partially assemble the seat, leaving it open
enough to shove the build sheet in once they were done with it?  Where
exactly on the line were these seats assembled anyway?  Is it possible that
a seat build for a 4-door could have been put in a convertible going down
the line the same day?

I could understand it better if the build sheet were merely stuck on the
bottom of the seat where you could reach up into the springs from below, but
why would they seal it inside of the top part of the seat?

Anybody have any answers?

Bill Hubbell
President, SCG
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