My not-so-great broadcast sheet/ '67 Fury

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Years ago when pulling apart my 67 Sport Fury convertible I was happy to see a nice build sheet under the back seat. After careful extraction I was very disappointed with the contents. Maybe the printer ran out of ink? Not sure if this was a common occurrence or an aberration? The car did have an unusual start. The original owner I bought from said his brother was a wheel at the plant and together they personally walked the car down the assembly line. The original owner spec’d the options he wanted. A buddy of his was into Porsches at the time & he wanted a big American boat that would outperform the guy’s 911. The original owner had this car for 27 years & as the 2nd owner I’ve had for 27 too, scary! He died a year after letting it go.
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Great story, and that blank sheet is very cool. With the writing on the back, it's not like it was simply a loose, overlooked extra, because it WAS woven in the springs for some reason with that writing. A good mystery!

Is 3261 the last four of your VIN?
 
P27 is a designation for a Plymouth convertible body type. H6X is most likely a color trim code, which in 67 was the color black. Does it have a black interior or a black top?
 
Not part of VIN or any other # associated with car that I know of. Not sure what the H6X means either.

H6 sounds like a trim code. Is that on your fender tag?

Come to think of it--according to the story of the Wheel choosing his options on the assembly line--this could be a totally legit car that DOESN'T match its fender tag.
 
P27 is a designation for a Plymouth convertible body type. H6X is most likely a color trim code, which in 67 was the color black. Does it have a black interior or a black top?
Forgot about that, H6X is black vinyl interior which matches fender tag. I did get the Chrysler Historical info years ago, matched up exactly as car was equipped so no surprises.
 
I found a similar sheet in a parts car.

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Has the model at the top, and trim on the left. On the bottom you can see the previous car's info that came through the paper, it's upside down, a Polara of some sort.

My take is they had some sort of list of what they needed for cars they were making that day, but didn't have the actual broadcast sheets, so they used blank sheets to have a count/record. Like I said, my take on it.
 
I have remnants of a second broadcast sheet that was found under the driver's seat. It was blank, the same as the other. The original owner knew what he was doing when he ordered the car, after all he was a rocket scientist (no joke!). The car spent time down at the Kennedy space center where he worked on the Apollo missions. Here's an earlier bio-
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I found 6, yes SIX, broadcast sheets in my 67 Polara 500 convertible. Two of them were blank with the model info hand written on the back side, as yours is. Did you remove the carpeted panel from the back of the front seats? I found two there. a remanant of one under the bottom of the drivers seat, two in the rear seat back and one under the rear seat lower cushion.

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Good info. I never checked the front seat backs. I did get new front seat covers which I had a local guy install. Could still be there, will check. Car is in winter hibernation.
 
Good info. I never checked the front seat backs. I did get new front seat covers which I had a local guy install. Could still be there, will check. Car is in winter hibernation.

The trimmer would have had to remove those seat back panels to install new seat covers. Hope he didn't just toss any sheets he may have found.
 
BOOM!

And there's the answer to 3261 on the first sheet. Anyone else catch it?

That's why we work together....
 
Very observant, the sequence number. And what does that signify?

Given the variances found on sheets, it may be easier to explain SO numbers and VONs...

There seems to be many meanings and variations to the BS sequence number. Each plant and year can different (imagine that....).

Some plants appear to be sequential in that the number increases roughly consecutively throughout the year. Some plants seem to be date coded and show a daily work flow. Some plant just seem to show a daily work flow without any date code. Some plant appear to use this as an inventory and counting item i.e. the sequence number will be much lower on a Rally Dash than other sheets in the car indicating the sequence number was a counting of the number of Rally dashes built as opposed to standard dashes or total dashes.

You can have two sheets from the same car that do have the same sequence number and cars from a different plant will have two different numbers.

The general gist appears to be the number is a daily inventory/counting/administration of that particular department. In the cases above, we're looking at the upholstery/seat department.

I'm an employee in the department. I come back from lunch and find the printer is down. I still have to do my job and match up my inventory of seats to the projected assembly need for the afternoon. I grab my grease pencil and a stack of unprinted sheets from the printer as my scratch sheet/designated piece of paper I'm supposed to use to do my job. I check my master inventory/work guide for the day and find my next next inventory items are for cars with Sequence Number 3200 - 3210. I have to account for my days work and production and match up the proper seat to the car. So I write the numbers and the appropriate trim code on the sheets, grab the correct seats I need, stuff the sheets in the back of the seats, put the seats on the conveyor/hand cart and move on. I've managed my inventory and done my job without having a printed sheet.

Another reason why to save as many sheets, tags, window stickers and factory documents as possible....
 
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Agreed that the line was probably more focused on the Sequence Numbers (vs. the VIN), but that doesn't explain the 1808.....


Gut feeling...the 1808 I relates to the actual part/assembly number. This could be corroborated by the trim tag attached to the seat.

Sequence number: which car
Trim code: which interior and color
1808 = which specific assembly i.e. lower rear seat in black for DM27 with M6X interior.
 
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