Question about Z16 Chevelles

[70 Forest Green Zee]

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]

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]

Originally Posted by 70 Forest Green Zee

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...??

[Xplantdad]

Originally Posted by RPOLS3

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]

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

[EZ Nova]

I thought of doing a tribute Z16 convert.

[fsc66]

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

Paul

[Kurt S]

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

[bbjohnny]

I don't want to start too much commotion but I probably had something to do with the "rumor". I talked to the person who owned it. He worked for GM and bought it internally.
Got his name from a guy that seen the car on a dyno at GM. I won't give any details (sorry) but the car was supposedly crushed by the guy that he sold it to. So the rumor continues!

[jeffschevelle]

Known trim tag date range runs from 02D to 03A (very few early cars for initial press release at proving grounds), and 03C to 04B. There are no known 03B cars.

There is old evidence of the Z16 convertible existing, from more than one source who did not know each other at the time, with exactly matching stories as to where it was sold new, who owned it first, and the colors. There were also two independent sources with matching stories of the car's demise in an accident. So I have no doubt it existed.

But Paul is correct that the ECL total for the Z16 option on 13867 [SS convertible] series cars is listed as 0 produced, while 201 is the total listed for the 13837 [SS coupe] series. (A production Z16 convertible would have its own ECL because an SS convertible already had a boxed frame while an SS coupe did not, which makes the parts content lists different for the two body styles.)

However, the ECL totals do not include COPO orders, or vehicles hand built at the Tech Center, so either of those could have been the origin of the Z16 convertible. And that seems likely since the interior and exterior colors were not from list of available colors for a "production" Z16.