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Post by AZBlues on Jun 8, 2023 22:14:56 GMT -5
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Post by AZBlues on Jun 15, 2023 17:49:53 GMT -5
Got the engine leveled, Throttle and kickdown/throttle valve linkage bead blasted and repainted, Kickdown installed, And shift linkage installed. I am missing the swivel pin from the column rod to the bellcrank, looked everywhere. Local U-pullit proved less than useless, even though these were common on Mopars to the late '80s. Look like this. Does anyone have one?
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Post by AZBlues on Jul 1, 2023 14:07:56 GMT -5
Removed the grille, A/C condenser, brackets, and horns and wet sanded the core support to prep it for paint. Spotted in the bare metal areas with dark gray primer, sanded the primer to feather it in. Note the drips in the factory paint, these will be painted over out of laziness to maintain a non over-restored factory appearance. Gloss black. This takes care of most of the rest of the original HL4 Parchment (old man tan) engine bay paint.
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Post by AZBlues on Jul 5, 2023 21:14:08 GMT -5
How about we decode the tag, document what this car is before it gets the movie makeup. The police tag is not original to this car, but it's always been the plan to include it in the build. Getting the codes took a day or so on the interwebs, plus some help from a couple of guys on the For C Bodies Only forum. This is a very plain base model car. So, in order: Y16 - Sales bank car. The sales bank was a management tactic to keep the assembly lines in production, even when there were no orders coming in. These new cars were stored on lots called sales banks until dealerships came calling for new inventory. But it can also mean something else, and we'll get to that.
END - End of sales codes HL4 (twice) paint code, in this case Parchment, AKA Old Man Tan. The bottom HL4 is for the main body color, the top HL4 is for the roof color. U - USA market G11 - Tinted glass, all G25 - manual vent windows H51 - Manual air cond w/heater K5X - Body side moldings P1L3 - Parchment cloth/vinyl int trim KL2 - Upper door frame paint, int, Parchment 331 - Scheduled build date, March 31 903655 - VON - Vehicle order number E44 - 318 2V V8 engine D34 - TorqueFlite A/T Final three groupings are the VIN, broken down as such: DM41 - Monaco/medium price class/4dr sedan G5D - 318/1975 model year/Belvidere, IL assembly plant
A member of For C Bodies Only saw some interesting additional information, his reply from that forum: Y16 = Internally ordered car. Meaning someone at Chrysler Corp sat down with an order blank and ordered this car as opposed to it being ordered by the customer or dealer. Y16 can be sales bank cars or cars ordered to populate dealer inventory and to keep the lines running in between ordered cars.
Or, Y16 cars can be internally ordered vehicles designed to fulfill a special purpose or order. For example, 'appearance cars'. Marketing reps sign a contract to sponsor golf tournament. Part of the agreement is for Chrysler to provide cars to transport celebrities or tournament officials during the event. These cars could code Y16. Another example would be parade cars or pace cars for race. Y16 cars like that typically carry specialty VONs.
Y16 cars can carry a typical VON or a specialty VON depending on their end use or a specific application.
Specialty VONs are assigned internally by Chrysler to help designate that special purpose. A specialty VON supersedes the Vehicle Order Number found on the order sheet. For MY '75, letters were typically used for special VONs (such as a K VON for 'cop cars'). The other exception is the use of the number 9. Cars with a 9***** VON typically have other handling or deliver instructions over and above a standard retail VON. This series is assigned by Chrysler and does not appear on the order sheet.
This car carries Y16 and a 9***** VON indicating to me the car was ordered internally at Chrysler with special handling or delivery instructions over and above a standard retail delivery. The reason for this VON is typically associated with additional Y codes. Those Y codes would be found on the broadcast sheet, invoices, or ADSN dealer paperwork. The codes may not be found on the window sticker. Given what we have in front of us, we do not know why this car carries a Y16 code and 9***** VON. It likely doesn't mean much for significance, but it is mildly interesting.
As not all sales codes appear on a tag and not all plants coded the same. It is difficult, if not impossible, to know what options came on a car simply by looking at a fender tag. Therefore, we really can't make too many judgements as to how well or sparsely equipped car was when built simply by looking at a tag. A car could have come with 5-8 additional cost and desirable items that are not coded on a tag.
Not all plants coded the same. For MY '75, some plants coded R series radio codes (Hamtramck, St. Louis) and some did not either by choice (Windsor, Belvidere), coding layout (Lynch Road) or limited coding (Jefferson). Belvedere (D plant) did not. The lack of an R code does not tell us whether the car came with a radio or not.
The 68 stamping is a typical inspection code. Somebody did their job, inspected something and punched the tag to indicated they inspected something. So it would be interesting to know why this car was special ordered internally, but as I have only fragments of the build sheet, that information may well be lost to time.
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Post by AZBlues on Jul 9, 2023 18:10:32 GMT -5
Got the hood latch parts cleaned, blasted, painted/cleared, back together.
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