Window Stickers

[Lee Stewart]

Maybe I don't quite understand the value of a Window Sticker when it comes to the pedigree of a car. How much emphasis is placed on having a real one if that is the only documentation that goes with the car? Oh sure - I understand what it shows but I would think that other documentation like the Build Sheet would be more valuable. Isn't that like a car's "Birth Certificate?"

There will never be a "meeting of the minds" on the issue of reproduction Window Stickers. Like many things in life, what is created for show and enjoyment purposes can be used to defraud the unsuspecting and uneducated.

[Big Block Bill]

Originally Posted by Lee Stewart

Maybe I don't quite understand the value of a Window Sticker when it comes to the pedigree of a car. How much emphasis is placed on having a real one if that is the only documentation that goes with the car? Oh sure - I understand what it shows but I would think that other documentation like the Build Sheet would be more valuable. Isn't that like a car's "Birth Certificate?"

There will never be a "meeting of the minds" on the issue of reproduction Window Stickers. Like many things in life, what is created for show and enjoyment purposes can be used to defraud the unsuspecting and uneducated.

Being my LS-6 is an Arlington built car, it is next to impossible to find a REAL Build Sheet / "Birth Certificate" being (I am told) the only place they were placed was on the passenger side floor pan prior to sound insulation and carpet installation. So if the car went through the Midwest climate of rain, salt , and snow as my car did being an Illinois delivered car, the only other documentation would be a protect-o-plate or window sicker.

So I feel the original window sticker (which I have) is the only documentation that can prove it left the factory as a Black, White stripes, Black Bucket seat, M-22, 4:10 gear car. If I was lucky enough to have the original protect-o-plate, it would prove engine, transmission, and rear axle codes but not all the options it has like the AM / Stereo 8-track radio.

If this original window sticker was not with the car when I purchased it in January 2003, I would have never purchased it being I was only looking for a documented Black / Black Bucket seat LS-6, M-22 / 4:10 gear car.

Right or wrong, anyone can build anything they want and "Put Together" paperwork to prove what they have created. But when originally built, they are only what they left the factory as. I can only hope in my lifetime Chevrolet will model a program off of PHS or Marti that will prove every Camaro, Chevelle, full size Chevrolet, Nove and Corvette. If they did, we'd all be broke from building prisons to house all the Thief's in.

They are only born original once, and have only one real "Birth Certificate".

Bill

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