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70 Forest Green Zee 04-13-2021 01:49 PM

Question about Z16 Chevelles
 
After looking at the Z16 Chevelle listed on Ebay I went back and looked at the one that sold in Jan from the Rick Treworgy collection. I always thought that the VIN #s would be sequential with only 201 cars being produced, but apparently that is not the case. The VIN from the Ebay car is 138375K175146 and the VIN from the Treworgy car is 138375K169577. That is a span of 5569 cars. If these two cars are both legit, is it possible that they made a certain amount of Z16's then went on to other cars, then went back to making Z16's again and finished up the run of 201 cars?


napa68 04-13-2021 02:50 PM

I am not a Z16 guy by any means, but other low production cars were not built in one batch ( Z06 Corvettes, L88's, Zl1 Camaro's). I suspect they could have been limited to office approvals or orders to say nothing for parts availability.

Just my .02?

Tim

RPOLS3 04-13-2021 02:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 70 Forest Green Zee (Post 1544820)
After looking at the Z16 Chevelle listed on Ebay I went back and looked at the one that sold in Jan from the Rick Treworgy collection. I always thought that the VIN #s would be sequential with only 201 cars being produced, but apparently that is not the case. The VIN from the Ebay car is 138375K175146 and the VIN from the Treworgy car is 138375K169577. That is a span of 5569 cars. If these two cars are both legit, is it possible that they made a certain amount of Z16's then went on to other cars, then went back to making Z16's again and finished up the run of 201 cars?


Here is a thread that discusses production window.

https://www.yenko.net/forum/showthread.php?t=83983

It appears the Z16 registry is no longer available to view online...??

Kurt S 04-13-2021 06:44 PM

They wouldn't be consecutive for line balance reasons, along with many others like scheduling, parts availability, orders, etc.

Xplantdad 04-13-2021 06:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RPOLS3 (Post 1544824)
Here is a thread that discusses production window.

https://www.yenko.net/forum/showthread.php?t=83983

It appears the Z16 registry is no longer available to view online...??


I miss Dave (MRREC) :(



He was a wealth of knowledge and a great guy!

300deluxe 04-14-2021 02:58 AM

When is the convertible gonna be found??? I have been thinking about this for 30 plus years!

EZ Nova 04-14-2021 11:31 AM

I thought of doing a tribute Z16 convert.

fsc66 04-14-2021 12:57 PM

Convert
 
There was no convertible, we now have GM production records that show no convertibles were produced. Except perhaps as a prototype......

Paul

dvss1 04-14-2021 04:19 PM

If you have documentation stating that there were no convertible, do you have the vin numbers of all the 201 cars?

firstgenaddict 04-14-2021 08:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fsc66 (Post 1544896)
There was no convertible, we now have GM production records that show no convertibles were produced. Except perhaps as a prototype......

Paul

He is referring to the internal Chevrolet Production Trends documents which list MOST ECL's broken out by car lines- the docs were internal for Chevrolet and circulated throughout the higher ups in marketing, management, planning, and sales to study "production Trends" -
IIRC the 65 Malibu SS is not a separate model - it is a malibu V8- with added parts - if there were no additional parts or different parts required to build a Z16 conv there would not be a separate ECL.

additionally - There are a number of low production options which are not shown in the ECL production data - Including 1969 Camaro NK1.


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