factory grease pencil marks?

[bruceman1968]

Originally Posted by Keith Seymore

Negative. They had probably already built several hundred thousand vehicles so the full sequence number might be something like 299902, but they just wrote the last two or three digits on the various components for tracking purposes. The full build sequence number just keeps climbing all model year as vehicles are built, but in this way you could be building vehicle 901, 902, 903, 904 etc. one day and then 001, 002, 003, etc the next. (Full sequence would be 299901, 299902, 299903, 299904,etc; 300001, 300002, 300003, etc).

My truck was built on Monday Sept 29 of 1986 (in Flint) and the VIN was already up in the 317000 range (60 jobs per hour, two shifts); similarly my Chevelle was built in September of 1973 in Oshawa and the VIN is also already up in the 300000 range.

K

Keith, Are you saying that the 902 number is the last 3 digits of his VIN number?