VIN plate/tag installed at what point if production?

[Canada69]

I'm looking at a car which has a NCRS shipping data report, the shipping date is 4/14/1969. I'm wondering at which point in the process is the VIN plate/tag installed on the body. The trim tag date(03E) lines up with the motor production date of 0212DZ(18 days prior), am i wrong in thinking the VIN  should be closer to the TT date?

[ko-lek-tor]

I'm looking at a car which has a NCRS shipping data report, the shipping date is 4/14/1969. I'm wondering at which point in the process is the VIN plate/tag installed on the body. The trim tag date(03E) lines up with the motor production date of 0212DZ(18 days prior), am i wrong in thinking the VIN  should be closer to the TT date?

You are asking if the vin lines up with production date, but you do not supply a vin? So nothing can be asserted.
You state “the engine build date is 0212 (Feb 12th) 18 days prior...” prior to what? 3E on tag is the last week of March
In summary you have an engine built the 12 of Feb (69), for a car built at the end of March and shipped on the 14th of April. Please, help us, provide the vin.
And, here is an article that explains when vin & tag were assigned: http://www.camaros.org/assemblyprocess.shtml

“Chevrolet Overview” is the paragraph that explains when tag is installed

[william]

03E units were in final assembly March 31 through April 16, which included a 10 day span of no Camaro production at Norwood.

Engine date is way off the norm for a March build.

[Canada69]

Thanks, your leads/info made it so that I found out what I needed to.

[firstgenaddict]

10 days of no production... was this due to the firebird change?

[william]

Believe so.

[bcmiller]

I'm looking at a car which has a NCRS shipping data report, the shipping date is 4/14/1969. I'm wondering at which point in the process is the VIN plate/tag installed on the body. The trim tag date(03E) lines up with the motor production date of 0212DZ(18 days prior), am i wrong in thinking the VIN  should be closer to the TT date?

What’s the VIN and which engine does it have?

[firstgenaddict]

Believe so.

Can you imagine the chaos at that time?
Phasing in Firebird from Lordstown, Pace Car Production, beginning Trans Am production - NTM the COPO's - It's no wonder Dave's burnished brown L78 convertible built in mid may got a firebird rear bottom seat cushion.

BTW to answer original poster's question...  after the body came through the wall from FISHER the assigned VIN - it was impressed into the finished painted cowl top and heater motor area. This time line also illustrates why the dash top is zero gloss black suede (painted at fisher) and the VIN tags (stamped and painted or coated at Chevrolet assembly) are typically semigloss.

[william]

True, in part. The dash also got a coating of gray primer prior to the suede top coat. The top coat was applied with production high-pressure equipment. VIN tags were E-coated black after stamping, then only the top was lightly sprayed with a suede top coat. Due to the differences in process, tag finish does not always match the dash top.

At Norwood through approximately VIN N520xxx, tags were painted to match the dash top. Afterwards, they were all painted black suede regardless of interior color. At this time I know of no Van Nuys VIN tag painted other than black.