<VV> Corvair body tag

[Kent Sullivan]

The body number is indeed the sequence of that type of body at that plant
for that year.

Willow Run built way more Corvairs in '66 than Van Nuys (Los Angeles). I
don't have the year-end production totals in front of me at the moment, but
I recall that it is very lopsided. VN/LOS was really overflow, in a way.

--Kent
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Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 11:09 AM
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Subject: <VV> Corvair body tag

 
Hey all.  It was my research to interpret all the info on  my car's Fisher
body tag that  led me to this group in the first place. Now  that I
understand all the info the tag contains I'm left with a new  mystery.  Here
goes:
 
My car is a '66 Monza coupe
My car's VIN indicates it is the 79,967 vehicle built at Willow Run  that
year.
Its body tag shows it as body #28147, built first week of May (so I  figure
it was about 3/4 of the way into that year's production) Published figures
show 103,743 corvairs built at ALL US plants that  year, of which 37,605
were Monza coupes.
 
So...what I can't figure is:
Since it's kinda unlikely that 51820 cars  (the  difference between the VIV
and body tag number) built at Willow Run that year  didn't have bodies, I
figure the body  number must indicate Monza coupes  only, right??
But supposedly only at Willow Run? If that's true, how to  explain that body
#28147at Willow Run puts it at 3/4 of TOTAL  production for Monza coupes at
ALL US plants that year, at about the  3/4 date in the production year (or
that VIN 79967 is also about 3/4 of the  year's TOTAL production of 103,743
Corvairs, not just at WRN?)
 
The kinda mystery I love to solve.  Who can  help?
Thanks, Matt M.

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