62 SS Convertible

[JW5134866]

I’m looking at this car and I’d like to see if someone can look at decipher out the trim tag info , I’ll also put a pic of the vin tag - thks

 

[JW5134866]

Pic if Vin attached.

 

[La Hot Rods]

Paging @Carl 1962

 

[pvs409]

Carl will add to these comments -its a California built V-8 SS convertible
Cowl tag
7B = July 2nd week of 1962 - assembly date at Los Angeles's GM assembly plant
62-1867 = 1962 Chevrolet convertible
VN 4702 = Van Nuys, California Fisher body plant
Trim - 815 = Black SS bucket seat interior
Paint - 936 = Ermine white exterior paint
ACC (I think these comments are correct (Carl will confirm)
16 = ?
EZW - tinted windshield and tinted side glass (confirm by looking for E-Z-Eye stamp on each of the 6 side glass)
SS = SS bucket seat car
Ivory = white convertible top

VIN tag
21867 = 1962 (2) - 2dr convertible (1867)
L = Los Angeles's, California GM assembly plant
230539 - body assembly number to match with Van Nuys body number 4702 (Carl has this information)

Paul

 

[JW5134866]

Thanks Paul !

 

[nana1962409]

Paul doesn’t the 16 on the accessory line correspond to the day of the month it was built?

 

[64ss409]

That is just an accessory code, nothing to due with the date. Carl will fill us in.

 

[Carl 1962]

Paul pretty covered it all except EZW is tinted windshield only on Van Nuys car in 62 and 16 at the start of the ACC line is the broadcast date (day of month) when the car was broadcast for assembly. It doesn't always appear to line up with the date code (Month/Week) because unlike most other Fisher plants, Van Nuys only changed their date codes on Wednesdays. In July 62, the first day of the date code 7A was Wednesday July 4th (Independence Day), the date code changed to 7B on Wednesday July 11th. July 16th was a Monday and still in the 7B date code range. The date code 7C started on July 18th and so on. In my database I've recorded the date codes and broadcast dates of 450 cowl tags from Van Nuys in 62 and this is how I've figured out the pattern. It took about 10 years to figure out with 99.9% certainty.

The VIN is original and unmolested and the sequence number 230539 means it was the 130,539th car built at Van Nuys in the 62 model year (numbers start at 100001) which is right in the middle of VINs for mid July 62 production.

 

[JW5134866]

Thanks for all the info and input, I’m gonna look at car next week, been in storage long time.