Job Number Question

[Jack Y.]

I pulled the rear valance from a 63 and found the '295 D' in pencil. I have not confirmed the job number yet but what is the 'D' ? I searched the archives with no info concerning a letter suffix. Thanks for any ideas!!

[Dwight P.]

Re: Job Number Question

Jack:

I posted a similar question several months back. There seems to be no question about the job number....first car begins with 001 and continues to 500 and then restarts at 001. In theory the job number should correspond to the last three digits of the VIN. However, if a car began the assembly process and was assigned a job number and then was pulled from assembly without a VIN, the assembly numbers do not match-up. My car(1965 Coupe) was assembly number M335...the VIN is 113833, so the assembly number should be 333....I assume that there must have been 2 cars that began assembly but did not reach the point where a VIN was assigned.
The letter sequence is a mystery. No one has posted any info regarding the letters that were assigned to assembly numbers.

[Jack Y.]

Re: Job Number Question

Thank you for responding!

[Steve Wallach]

Re: Job Number Question

I have a Job Number that includes a "B" and it is in three places on my 68 Coupe. (The front passenger side kick panel of the firewall, the passenger side floor board, and the rear tub in front of the gas tank). My car did wind up at the Warren MI. Tech Center, so I don't know if the "B" had something to do with that? I have asked before and I got a lot of speculation, but no clear answer? Rick Bizzoco has been researching this (Author of "The 69 Stingray") so he had some interest in the use of Letters in the Job Numbers, but I haven't heard that he was ever able to come to any conclusions on this either?

Good Luck,

Steve

[Joe C.]

Re: Job Number Question

Dwight,

You are right about the body job number cycling between one and five hundred. But, the number was for the body build, and occurred both in St Louis and Ionia. Neither had any correlation to serial (VI) number.
The sequence was 1 -> 500 -> 1.

Joe

[Joe C.]

Re: Job Number Question

Jack,

No consensus on this. Some speculation regarding the suffix as indicating "certain options combinations for the completed vehicle". Last conversation with famous Corvette forensics expert had no new information.

Joe

[Gene B.]

Re: Job Number Question

My 58 had job number 270 and my 64 had job number 221. No other designation was shown.

Gene

[Donald T.]

Re: Job Number Question

There have been a couple of discussions on this topic in the past, so you may want to do some additional searhing in the archives. The job number itself is no mystery as has already been stated, but the letter is another story. There are a few theories out there, but nothing definitive. My 65 has job number Q189, and can't say what the Q represents. We would really need to do a survey and get a sufficient sample size to look for patterns (i.e. options, build date sequence, AOS vs. St. Louis, etc.) It would be interesting to solve this one, but the meaning of the letter designation might be lost to time.