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Originally Posted by mike16
... but corporate came down with a mandate to dispose of any documentation in the archives that lawyers could use against them in court. Essentialy all the records were destroyed including those stats that we all crave now...
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I don't recall any mandate to get rid of records. There are standardized retention periods depending on the type of documentation that are government regulations and those retention periods are still adhered to.
The reason the records don't exist is because there are/were so many, and there was no central repository. Nobody in the corporation (or on the outside) had the time or inclination to try and pull all that together. The Canadian records were saved because they were more manageable and co-located.
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Originally Posted by mike16
Pontiac docs were saved but pretty much the rest were done in.
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The Pontiac documents were saved because they were financial records (invoices and billing history cards). The fact that they were valuable to historians and enthusiast was coincidental.
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