Where would this be located on a 69 chevelle? Also where can I find the factory build sheet? I looked in the springs of the back seat (top and bottom) but came up empty. Not sure if seat has been redone, but it is in pretty good shape. Would it be under the burlap looking material in the seat?

The protecto-plate was a credit card sized metal plate that was in the warranty book. Maybe owners manual, don't remember which. It was not attached to the car. The build sheet could be inside any of the seats, above the gas tank, under the carpeting. Where ever the line worker felt like stuffing it after he no longer needed it.

POP is the warranty ID plate attached to warranty booklet.

Build sheet may or mau not be still in the car. you may have to tear the car apart to find it. It will be covered up by panels, carpets and what not.

If we knew the assembly plant, others who found them could tell you were to look. Post the VIN and Body tag, that will tell us the plant which produced it.

VIN 136379B323748

Cowl Tag

ST 69 13637 BAL157630 BDY
TR 755 51 51 PNT
11B BM067339

From what I know this means Chevrolet Malibu 2 door sport coupe. Black vinyl bench seat interior with dusk blue paint both upper and lower. It was assembled in Baltimore I believe.

You're correct in your decoding and it was built in Baltimore the 2nd week of November - 11B from the body plate, 23,748th Chevelle model built at the Baltimore plant.

Common misconception was that the build sheets were suppose to be left in the car when finished. Just the opposite, they were supposed to be tossed in the trash and not stuffed somewhere in the headliner, under the carpet, etc. for someone to find in 20 or 30 years. If you find one, great. If you don't it probably means someone was doing their job that day on the assembly line. :(

BAL 'usually' stuffed them under the springs in the rear seat lower cushion. (popular place)

i found the build sheet on my 70 bal car glued to the back of pass door panel. as a bonus i found a 1970 newspaper in almost perfect shape tucked behind the rear trim panel.on the front page was news of a gm strike.

Originally posted by markedman240:
i found the build sheet on my 70 bal car glued to the back of pass door panel. as a bonus i found a 1970 newspaper in almost perfect shape tucked behind the rear trim panel.on the front page was news of a gm strike. Sort of makes you wonder what other "stuff" workers crammed in the cars as they went by. :eek:

anybody else find any other kind of weird stuff?

I recall many years ago a friend who was a GM tech at a dealer told me of a car they had with a strange noise that would come and go. They looked high and low and could not find the source. After many hours of searching, they found a beer bottle inside the rear door.

I also found a news paper from the 2nd week of June 66 when my chevelle was prodused. It was in the driver side seat back panel it was in great shape. There also was a build sheet with it but it was in real bad shape. To bad they didn't use news paper for there build sheets.

My 70 was built in Baltimore and I have found a buildsheet under the front seat and one under the backseat. The one in the back had a corner of it crimped into the seat frame.

Had a '73 Nova SS built in Van Nuys that I ordered new. First couple of days driving her I noticed a rattle in the drivers side door. Took it back to the dealership where I bought it in Baxter Springs, KS and they found a Coca-Cola bottle left in the door. Guess the guy on the assembly line was done with it so he placed it in the most convenient place he could find. Thank goodness it was empty......

Maybe should have hung onto it and the Nova. Would have been worth a bunch 30 years later....

Does anyone know where they would be in a 1968 Kansas plant SS?

Originally posted by guerrero777:
My 70 was built in Baltimore and I have found a buildsheet under the front seat and one under the backseat. The one in the back had a corner of it crimped into the seat frame. We must've had the same guy. That's exactly where I found the buildsheet on my Baltimore-built '70 Monte Carlo SS454 -- the corner of it crimped into the seat frame. :D

I haven't found the build sheet, or any "extra" factory installed stuff in my Chevelle yet, but I did find a non-winning lottery ticket that was about 20 years old under the dash pad smile.gif

I think they were thrown away - as possibly the workers were instructed to do.


Correct - there was a standard operation at the end of the Shipping Line, done by an Inspector, to "de-paper" the car (all the extra broadcast copies, inspection tickets, part tags, stickers, etc.) of all the documents that were strictly for internal plant use. All the car was supposed to have in it when it left the plant (besides the standard glove box stuff) was the window sticker and the Car Shipper. [thumbsup]

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JohnZSo to be able to find a build sheet today means you have to look in places that have remained hidden for all these years. If a bs fell on the floor before tha carpert went in, no one was likely to remove it, it was wated effort because it would get covered.

Here is my build sheet story:

I have an all original 69 Malibu Convertible (32,913 miles)built at the Baltimore plant. This Feb 2005, some 36 years after the car was produced, I removed the lower back seat (driver's side) and crumpled in front corner (under the seat springs and hidden by the same color seat foam) was the build sheet in very good condition.

Several other common places to look....above the glove box, both door panels, above the gas tank & under the carpet.

Good luck.

Where would you ussually expect it in a 1969 Chevelle Malibu 350 from Kansas City? Thanks for any help.

Does anyone know where they would be in a 1968 Kansas plant SS?

68s had a broadcast sheet but very few have been found. I personally have never seen one.

One funny story about protect o plates, I once asked a man selling his chevelle if it had a protect o plate, He said "hell no, its got clear coat"