Last 1972 Corvette

[Richard D.]

How can I find out if the last 1972 Corvette built was a coupe or convertible?

[Joe L.]

Re: Last 1972 Corvette

Rick------

The only way I know of would be to find the car serial-numbered "27004".

[Richard D.]

Re: Last 1972 Corvette

I know it's 27004 but not if it's a coupe or vert.

[Robert S.]

Re: Last 1972 Corvette

Rick,

According to the C3 Registry its a coupe with the base 350ci, 200hp, full vin 1Z37K2S527004 with approximate birthday: July 21, 1972.

Bob

[Robert S.]

Re: Last 1972 Corvette - Correction

***Disregard my prior post***

I decided tested the accuracy of the C3 Registry birthday calendar with my old 72 LT-1 convertible VIN.

Unfortunately it came back with the same results - coupe base engine

[Joe L.]

Re: Last 1972 Corvette

Rick-----

My point was that to know if the car was a coupe or a convertible, you (or, someone else) has to find the car with serial number "27004" and observe if it's a coupe or convertible. At this point, an empirical determination is the only way to do it; there are no known GM records which will provide this information.

If, as Bob suggested, if someone has previously located the car and described its configuration and optional equipment, then that's great; they've done the work for you. However, I don't know of any such information being available. With all the various "registries" out there, I suppose it may be available. I don't follow these too much, though.

[Wayne M.]

There's always the Insurance Bureau records

You'd need a real good friend in police or some valid legal reason, but you could run the number both ways, with coupe VIN prefix, and with convertible. Only one result would show.

[Joe L.]

Re: There's always the Insurance Bureau records

Wayne------

I thought of that, too. However, it's a lot more complicated than that for a 1972. 1972 was the first year that the engine was coded into the VIN. So, there are 3 possible engine choices that the car could have. That would expand the number of VIN possibilities. So, one would have to run a total of 6 possible VIN numbers, 5 of which, of course, never existed.

Even if one had a contact that could provide such information, asking them to run all the possible combinations might be a bit much. While I do have contacts that could do this sort of thing for me, there's no way that I'd "use up" that sort of favor by asking them to do something for reasons as "frivolous" as this.

Plus, my guess is that even if it were done, it would come up "dry". In other words, NONE of the 6 possible VINs would be in the data base.