<VV> Production date question: When was my '65 built?

[Rick Loving]

Charles,

Your Body was built on Sept 15th 1964.  The "normal" dater code for the Fisher Tag was 2 number month and 1 letter for week.  The week of Sept 13th a "new" operator was running the tag machine (presumably for 2 weeks to cover a vacation) and miss-stamped the tags for 2 weeks.  I have numerous examples of 914, 915, 922, 923, up to 924 where the "error" was corrected.

I have error or miss-stamped tags from various plant and various years....there was little effort to make corrections as the assembly line used the broadcast sheets to complete the car.

Your car is the 972 Monza coupe BODY built at LOS, each model was tracked separately.

Your car is the 1,553 Corvair assembled at LOS (of all models)...each plant tracked their bodies and production separately.


Rick Loving

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On May 13, 2019 10:14 PM, Charles Lee via VirtualVairs <virtualvairs at corvair.org> wrote:
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> Hi guys! 
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> Production date question: When was my '65 built? 
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> I recently acquired a  '65 Monza that shows some promise (VIN 10537 L 
> 101553) 
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> The body tag shows a "build date" of "915" and a body # "972" (VIN L 101553) 
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> I've heard that the "Build date" code that is normally 2-digit month + 
> 1-Letter (A to E) for the 1st to 5th week of the month. 
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> I've also heard that the "Build date" code in LA (only?) was  a 1-digit 
> month + 2-digit day, making mine built on September 15th, 1964? 
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> That jives with my engine code that is T0904RH, which was 11 days earlier, 
> and DMV shows her "birthday" as September 20th, 1964. 
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> Was this the 972nd Corvair built in LA, or the 1553rd in all plants, or 
> what? 
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> Thanks for any insights you may offer!! 
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> Charles Lee 
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