Hi Ron, what exactly do they send you ?
Maybe I'll just stick with my build sheet for now..could end up paying for something I already have !!
I didn't have a build sheet. I actually thought I bought a clone when I got back in '92 (not a #s guy personally, plus I was too young to care at the time). It was neat to find it's pedigree, but no big deal.
It's called volume. If you look at the millions of Chevrolets (not just Chevelles) produced over the years, keeping records that had no intrinsic value to the company had no value in keeping them. Divisions that had much lower production numbers like Pontiac were in a much better position to hang on to tons and tons of paperwork. GM as a corporation didn't keep records, individual divisions did. Apparently, production volume north of the border was such that good record keeping and archiving didn't present a problem. Look at the various differences in production documentation from one US assembly plant to another in any given model year and it's no wonder. There's no consistency in production build sheet information from plant to plant so keeping track of individual car information would have been a miracle and maintaining that information in a database for no purpose (at the time) would have been a waste of resources.
When you say 'build sheet' do you mean an 8.5 x 11 sheet with 100+ blocks of broadcast codes or a 'line tag' like the top photo on http://www.chevellestuff.com/1970/chevelle/bs/os/os_docs.htm? Canadian-built Chevelles had line tags where Chevelles sold in Canada but built in the U.S. had build sheets like the example on that same page. GM of Canada docs you receive for a fee are also shown on that page.
I found two line tags on the corners of the rear seats, and one behind the passenger bucket seat. The GM Canada documents offer you more info than the Line Tags. It will cover the numbers stamped on the block also. Talking about documents some one paid over $500.00 to get the original documents on an L34 70SS Canadian built.
