69CoronetRT
Senior Member
As you probably know by now, I'm one of those (annoying) numbers crunchers in the hobby.
A fellow archivist and I discuss a lot of mundane and totally uninteresting, to others, topics about how assembly plants did things and paperwork on cars.
We were discussing the significance of the sequence number on broadcast sheets.
The broadcast sheet sequence number means different things at different stations of the plant and can mean something different at each plant.
Once you compile enough data you can see patterns and determine what was done, why it was done and what it means.
Our main access to information is A, B and E body cars built at St. Louis, Hamtramck, and Lynch Road.
We want to determine if what we learned at those plants means the same thing at C body plants.
Not enough is known about the C body plants as:
1) They were lower production than the A, B and E bodies meaning less documentation to start with.
2) There are fewer C body lovers than the others.
2) People just don't value them C bodies like the others. Too many are scrapped without saving any of the documentation like broadcast sheets and fender tags. Cars are lost forever.
3) I've learned C body guys just have a different approach to the hobby and aren't as interested in the numbers crunching as the B and E body folks. It's just something that isn't discussed here like other boards. That's cool. It just different.
Therefore, research on C bodies is harder to come by.
Here's what I'm asking for help with.
I have some 69-71 C body broadcast sheets from the Jefferson and Belvedere plant but not enough to draw any valid conclusions as to what the broadcast sequence number means at those plants.
Do any of you have any 69-71 C body broadcast sheets you would be willing to share or would any of you with 69-71 C bodies be willing to share information or copies of your broadcast sheets?
Here is the type of data we are looking for. It's found in the upper left half portion of the sheet.
Thanks for any help you can offer.
A fellow archivist and I discuss a lot of mundane and totally uninteresting, to others, topics about how assembly plants did things and paperwork on cars.
We were discussing the significance of the sequence number on broadcast sheets.
The broadcast sheet sequence number means different things at different stations of the plant and can mean something different at each plant.
Once you compile enough data you can see patterns and determine what was done, why it was done and what it means.
Our main access to information is A, B and E body cars built at St. Louis, Hamtramck, and Lynch Road.
We want to determine if what we learned at those plants means the same thing at C body plants.
Not enough is known about the C body plants as:
1) They were lower production than the A, B and E bodies meaning less documentation to start with.
2) There are fewer C body lovers than the others.
2) People just don't value them C bodies like the others. Too many are scrapped without saving any of the documentation like broadcast sheets and fender tags. Cars are lost forever.
3) I've learned C body guys just have a different approach to the hobby and aren't as interested in the numbers crunching as the B and E body folks. It's just something that isn't discussed here like other boards. That's cool. It just different.
Therefore, research on C bodies is harder to come by.
Here's what I'm asking for help with.
I have some 69-71 C body broadcast sheets from the Jefferson and Belvedere plant but not enough to draw any valid conclusions as to what the broadcast sequence number means at those plants.
Do any of you have any 69-71 C body broadcast sheets you would be willing to share or would any of you with 69-71 C bodies be willing to share information or copies of your broadcast sheets?
Here is the type of data we are looking for. It's found in the upper left half portion of the sheet.
Thanks for any help you can offer.
ccasion14: :sSig_thanks:
