Re: Sales order # and build date

["MO ( Steve Mick)" <micher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you Bill, I appreciate your knowledge..............MO.......sw   iowa
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Watson" <wwatson6@xxxxxxx>
To: <1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, March 22, 2009 1:07 AM
Subject: Re: Sales order # and build date


> No, models introduced in September started production in early August, 
> sometimes at the very end of July.   And production ended in late July, 
> although a couple of years extended into early August and in bad years 
> ended in early July.   The 1940's and 1950's had model year beginnings and 
> endings all over the map due to WW II, Korean War and the rush to get the 
> Forward Look cars of 1955 and 1957 into production.
>
> So a car with a scheduled build date of June 21, 1968, for example, would 
> be a 1968 model.   And a 1968 model with a build date of June 21 would 
> have been built June 21, 1968.   Similarly, a 1963 model with a scheduled 
> build date of June 21 would be June 21, 1963.
>
> And when Chrysler switched production, the assembly lines came to a halt 
> while the plant switched to the new model year.   Downtime varied from a 
> couple of days for 1951 to 1952 to a couple weeks, if major changes were 
> being done.
>
> It was not a matter of rules, but a combination of a number of things - 
> the number of items changing (from trim to complete bodies), 
> alterations/expansion to the plant and facilities, when new powertrain 
> items came on line, and even the sales (or lack thereof) of the model year 
> coming to a close.
>
> The only "rule" was that the model year change should take place around 
> the beginning of August, at least from 1959 and on
>
> Bill
> Vancouver, BC
> .
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "MO ( Steve Mick)" <micher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 9:00 PM
> Subject: Re: Sales order # and build date
>
>
> > To confuse the issue-- since new cars were in the showroom in September, 
> > could they start production by June 21st? And 68 Roadrunners were so 
> > popular they may have extended production on them --also the 1969 were 
> > not that much different, so would have been easy to switch over 
> > production of them fairly late I don't think Ma Mopar played with hard 
> > rules! Just a thought :<)........................MO........sw  iowa
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "John Mullins" <johnedod@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 8:25 AM
> > Subject: RE: Sales order # and build date
> >
> >
> > > I'd say it's 63. I've got a 68 road runner with a July 68 build date.
> > > John
> > > Steve Chervinsky wrote:
> > > > Here is my S.O. # 0621 0076
> > > >
> > > > Is this an June 21st '62 manufacture date or a June 21st '63?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks group.
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Steve
> > > > '63 Hemi Polara
> > >
> > >
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> Please address private mail -- mail of interest to only one person --  
> directly to that person.  I.e., send parts/car transactions and 
> negotiations as well as other personal messages only to the intended 
> recipient, not to the Clubhouse public address. This practice will protect 
> your privacy, reduce the total volume of mail and fine tune the content 
> signal to Mopar topic.  Thanks!
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'62 to '65 Mopar Clubhouse Discussion Guidelines:
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