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Year Model  
1955           Passenger
1956           Passenger
1957           Passenger
1958           Passenger
1959   El Camino       Passenger
1960   El Camino       Passenger
1961           Passenger
1962         Chevy II/Nova Passenger
1963         Chevy II/Nova Passenger
1964 Chevelle El Camino     Chevy II/Nova Passenger
1965 Chevelle El Camino     Chevy II/Nova Passenger
1966 Chevelle El Camino Chevy II/Nova Passenger
1967 Chevelle El Camino Camaro Chevy II/Nova Passenger
1968 Chevelle El Camino Camaro Chevy II/Nova - Coupe
Chevy II/Nova - Sedan
Passenger
1969 Chevelle El Camino   Camaro Chevy II/Nova Passenger
1970 Chevelle El Camino Monte Carlo Camaro Chevy II/Nova Passenger
1971 Chevelle El Camino Monte Carlo Camaro Chevy II/Nova Passenger
1972 Chevelle El Camino Monte Carlo Camaro Chevy II/Nova Passenger
1973 Chevelle El Camino Monte Carlo Camaro Chevy II/Nova Passenger
1974 Chevelle El Camino Monte Carlo Camaro Chevy II/Nova Passenger
1975 Chevelle El Camino Monte Carlo Camaro Chevy II/Nova Passenger
1976 Chevelle El Camino Monte Carlo Camaro Chevy II/Nova Passenger
1977 Chevelle El Camino Monte Carlo Camaro Chevy II/Nova Passenger

 

Other Chevrolet models are also available online such Corvettes (also see my CorvetteWorld website), Luminas, Cavaliers, Citations, Vegas, trucks, and later versions of Camaro, Nova, Monte Carlo, etc. than shown in these links.  More Chevrolet (and some other GM divisions) Information Kits can be found on GM's Heritage Center archives.

 

If your car was originally sold or built in Canada, you will have to contact Vintage Vehicle Services. There is a fee for this service but they'll send you, what I refer to as a 'confirmation sheet' showing when/where the car was built along with all the options it came with. Latest information I have of the cost is $119.00 CDN as of October 2013; for U.S dollars, whatever the current exchange rate is. See here for more details.

 

Chevrolet produced more vehicles than all the other GM divisions combined and thereby generated a much higher volume of records which were a storage problem.

 

After the end of a year's production, the build records have very little business value to Chevrolet and therefore were not considered to be high priority for retention. GM record retention policy required the assembly plants to retain said documents for only about six months. Some records (including build sheets) were retained longer at the Corvette assembly plants, St. Louis and Flint. However, when Corvette production ceased at these locations, the records were pitched. It should be noted that the current Corvette Assembly Plant in Bowling Green, KY, retained the 1981-present vehicle manifests that are available now through the National Corvette Museum. This was against all odds, as there were many movements over the years within GM to destroy them because they had no business value to GM.

 

Meanwhile, back at the Tech Center in Warren, Michigan, the Chevrolet Engineering Records Retention Policy called for periodic destruction of non-essential records, of which the build documents were one, and this was carried out on a routine basis. The other GM divisions, Cadillac, Pontiac, etc., had much smaller production volumes and interpreted the GM Records Retention Policy differently and therefore retained said documents.

 

If GM changes the links to any of the files above, please let me know so I can track them down. As a last resort I have copies of ALL of these plus full size Chevrolets from 1955 through 1977 and Corvettes from 1953 through 2006.

 

According to Jim Mattison who was a long time GM employee and founder of the Pontiac Historical Society GM had records stored in a facility dating back to the 20's and 30's. A secretary at the facility decided GM didn't need to keep all those 'old records' and had them all destroyed.

 



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