I'm in the middle of a '68 body off resto and have no tank sticker. How do get a copy of the build sheet?
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Dave-----
About the only thing left to try is to look for a possible copy in other places that they are sometimes found. These include under the dash locations like above the steering column or above the heater box. Every-now-and-then one may be found under a carpet. In any event, if you don't find one somewhere in the interior, then I think that you're out of luck. Other than finding a copy somewhere on the car, there is no way to obtain a copy.In Appreciation of John Hinckley -
Unless it was sold new in Canada?
I have heard that GM of Canada has records of Corvettes sold there. True?https://MichiganNCRS.org
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Tom DingmanComment
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For some reason, I thought a place existed where I could send my VIN # and receive a build sheet. Not true?Comment
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Thank you Joe. Was hoping to find an address to send my VIN # off to, and get a build sheet back. Much too easy of a solution !Comment
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Dave, as more owners have become restoration and documentation conscious, more of these old tank stickers have been removed from the cars for "preservation". It is not uncommon to find the tank sticker missing, and in the future, this is likely to become the rule rather than exception.
Finding the tank sticker is exciting, but it is really only a little icing on the cake. It is not required for restoration, nor should it's absence have any effect on the progress of the restoration. Possessing the tank sticker is likely to have little or no effect on the value of the car...all of them had one once, and it's absence makes the car no less genuine.
If the tank sticker can be DEFINITELY TIED TO A GIVEN CAR, then it may increase the saleability of high-dollar cars (LT1s, BBs) simply because it offers one piece of documentation to confirm the original build of the car.Comment
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Dave------
Like Tom mentioned, if the car was originally delivered in Canada, GM-Canada may still have such records. Unless you are currently in Canada, the chance that the car was originally delievered there is rather slim, though.
Otherwise, at the present time there is no source of such information for Corvettes built at St. Louis. The Bowling Green plant does have such records for cars built there and, for a nominal charge, that information is available from the National Corvette Museum. The Bowling Green cars do include some C3s as some 1981 Corvettes (VIN code "5" after the "B") and all 1982 Corvettes were built at Bowling Green. Otherwise, though, we're mainly talking C4 and C5.In Appreciation of John HinckleyComment
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"All Of Them Had One..."
Well, not exactly what I meant to say. Tank stickers started in 67? and continued through ??. Sometimes I forget to remember that they didn't just start making Corvettes in 68.Comment
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Re: Unless it was sold new in Canada?
We all wished. The only records that exist are for Canadian cars, and Bowling Green built cars.. The good, the bad, and the ugly are apparently gone to the great paperwork scrap pile. Rumors had flown for years about the existance of paper work, GM has designated manpower (probably off record though) to find them.Dick WhittingtonComment
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Where were the build sheets before 67?Comment
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Most of the time a copy (copy number 5) of the buildsheet went to the dealer along with the dealer delivery of the car and sometimes the dealer gave it to the buyer and sometimes it survived to today. Without it or the original window sticker??????
HarryComment
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Joe,
Again - much thanks. No idea if this is a Canadian car as I'm in Cincinnati and this is where I bought the old gal. Rumour has it sitting in the Florida weeds for a few years, which explained the rusted through door sill reinforcements and non-repairable frame. Good body and drive train, and the right price convinced me not to let it sit and rot further. Plus, my first Corvette was a brand new '68 coupe. Numbers do match, although one peculiarity is that there is no letter suffix on the Muncie - I'll have to open it to see if it's a wide or close ratio. It is an L79 HT code so I suspect M21. I dis-assembled the engine and had the bore taper checked - only .006" so no boring required. Heads, cam, and crank check out just fine as well. One other thing, which I've read some about recently, is that it has a big block hood that has no holes drilled for the numbers "427", and when we stripped it, no difference between it and the rest of the body primer, meaning no additional layers of paint etc. Looks as if it came with it originally as hard as that is to believe. And it looks soooo good I hate to not use it. Probably not the NCRS way, eh? ;-)Comment
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Thanks to everyone for your responses. What I appear to have is a rough, numbers matching HT code L79 factory hotrod that will rise from the rust piles. Who knew plastic cars could have so much rust??Comment
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Dave you do not have to open up your Muncie to see if it is a M21 or M20. Just look at the cut rings on the splines at the front of the transmission.Comment
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If you tried tracking the car through DMV you might get lucky and locate the warranty book that would have the POP.Comment
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