MUNCIE 1967 STAMPED YU WITH VIN# L165927 IS THIS A YUTIVO MUNCIE

[optio20]

MY QUESTION IS -----IS THIS MUNCIE FROM YUTIVO CAMAROS
I JUST GOT A MUNCIE 1967 M-20  
IT HAS A LARGE YU STAMPED ON SIDE OF CASE WHERE THE SIDE COVER BOLTS 4 O CLOCK POSTION ON SIDE COVER
VIN # 01-L165927 ON TAIL SHAFT NEXT TO MID PLATE
7S107557 ON CASE
P7M17
I HAVE HAD ALOT OF MUNCIES OVER THE YEARS BUT NEVER SEEN ONE WITH YU STAMPED ON IT

LOOKED UP 1967 VIN# AND THEY STOP AT 65008 AND MY VIN IS 65927 AND THAT LED ME TO THE  YUTIVO CAMAROS AND 1200 MISSING CAMAROS





CASE- 010
SIDE -4685
TAIL 429
NOSE CONE 1326

[bertfam]

No, it's from a 1967 full size. 17S107557 is the partial VIN from the car it came out of. S stands for St Louis, MO and they built full size cars and Corvettes. The date of 7M17 indicates a transmission built on August 17th, 1966, which fits perfectly for a 67 full size car built in September, 1966.

By the way, can you post a picture of the YU stamping? And I'm going to move this to the Decoding/Numbers section.

Ed

[optio20]

OK WHAT DOES THE 01-L165927 STAND FOR THEN?

[bertfam]

No idea. Can you post a picture of that too? It may be some kind of rebuilders stamp.

Ed

[bertfam]

Go ahead and email them to me. I can resize them and post. My email address is in my profile to the left.

Ed

[bertfam]

Got em Steve. Here you go. No idea what the 01 L165927 or the YU is, but maybe John or one of the other guys might know.

Ed

[bcmiller]

Looks like the main case is from a full size car, like Ed said.  

The tailhousing appears to be from a different car - probably a LOS build Camaro or full size Chevrolet.

I have no idea on the Y U stamping.  

[bcmiller]

I missed the part on the 429 tail housing. That portion is not from a Camaro either.

[bertfam]

Okay, per Warren, the extension is from a 1964 full size car assembled at the Los Angeles plant.

Ed

[bertfam]

I was looking at the date wrong. It's not December 17th, 1966 but August 17th, 1966, so the main case came out of a full size car. I've fixed my original reply.

Ed

[optio20]

ok now we have down the vin number trail, that don't add up for a Camaro-    lets  look at YU that is stamped on main case is this Muncie from the phillipines?

stYutivo Corporation car lines, at one time or another, included:


Chevrolet: Bel-Air 4Dr, Impala 4Dr, Malibu 2Dr/4Dr, Camaro I must express my great appreciation to Yu Beng Tek of the Yutivo family, former Import and Distribution Manager of the Yutivo production facility, who tells the bulk of this story and pulled 30-year old facts from his memory with amazing ease. I am largely an editor for his words. I would also to express my appreciation to Mike Gomez, who helped me locate Mr. Yu. Also thanks to Santiago "Susing" Ricardo, friend of Mr. Yu and Yutivo Plant Manager during the Camaro years, for supplying the plant layouts. And, of course, to the other members of the Camaro Research Group, who helped proof-read and critique this article

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[bertfam]

is this Muncie from the phillipines?

No, the main case came from St Louis and the extension came from Los Angeles.

Ed