Is there some way to estimate when a 1967 coupe was actually delivered to its original owner?
According to the NCRS Shipping Data Report, the GM official Production Date of my car was April 11, 1967.
The car was delivered to H.E. Baher Chevrolet, in Manhattan Beach, California.
I imagine it would take perhaps a week for the train transport to reach the L.A. area from Detroit. Is that a realistic time frame?
Assuming the car was special ordered by a specific customer, how many days might elapse from Production Date to the date the customer drives it off the lot? A week? Two? My car is highly optioned with A/C, PW, PB, PS, A/T, etc. Is it reasonable to assume this car would have been specifically ordered so equipped by the buyer? Or did dealers get cars sent to them with a variety of options with the hope that the car would sell? If my car wasn't special ordered, then it might have sat on the dealer's lot for an unknown length of time before being sold. Unfortunately, I have no documentation on the car before 1982.
The reason I'm interested in this is because I want to buy a set of original black California license plates to display on the car at shows. I'd like to buy plates with a letter sequence that would be plausibly 'correct' taking into account when the car might have been sold and registered. I understand "T,U, and V" were the beginning letters for cars registered in California in 1967.
So which starting letter(s) would be realistic for a car likely licensed sometime between the end of April and the beginning of May? Would "UWZ 007" fit the bill?
Thanks,
Alex
NCRS#61370
According to the NCRS Shipping Data Report, the GM official Production Date of my car was April 11, 1967.
The car was delivered to H.E. Baher Chevrolet, in Manhattan Beach, California.
I imagine it would take perhaps a week for the train transport to reach the L.A. area from Detroit. Is that a realistic time frame?
Assuming the car was special ordered by a specific customer, how many days might elapse from Production Date to the date the customer drives it off the lot? A week? Two? My car is highly optioned with A/C, PW, PB, PS, A/T, etc. Is it reasonable to assume this car would have been specifically ordered so equipped by the buyer? Or did dealers get cars sent to them with a variety of options with the hope that the car would sell? If my car wasn't special ordered, then it might have sat on the dealer's lot for an unknown length of time before being sold. Unfortunately, I have no documentation on the car before 1982.
The reason I'm interested in this is because I want to buy a set of original black California license plates to display on the car at shows. I'd like to buy plates with a letter sequence that would be plausibly 'correct' taking into account when the car might have been sold and registered. I understand "T,U, and V" were the beginning letters for cars registered in California in 1967.
So which starting letter(s) would be realistic for a car likely licensed sometime between the end of April and the beginning of May? Would "UWZ 007" fit the bill?
Thanks,
Alex
NCRS#61370
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