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I have a 69 442 convertible but the trim tag says 33667...I'm confused...
Originally Posted by ej69
69 cutlass convertible w tr 937 interior code. Research I did showed this is parchment color. Is that correct? I am trying to restore center console which appears to have been painted w an almond color. Does anyone supply correct paint and also dye for armrests which have faded.
also what does 03D designate in trim tag
thanks
Hello Harry,
Not to fret. The tell-tale for a 4-4-2 in '68 and '69 is in the VIN, not the trim tag. If your VIN starts with 344679..., you have a real 4-4-2!
Randy C.
'68 4-4-2 convertible
'69 4-4-2 convertible
Hello Harry,
Not to fret. The tell-tale for a 4-4-2 in '68 and '69 is in the VIN, not the trim tag. If your VIN starts with 344679..., you have a real 4-4-2!
Randy C.
'68 4-4-2 convertible
'69 4-4-2 convertible
Thanks Randy, glad to hear it as it does have such a VIN!
It is well documented in factory literature that the 1968-69 442s came with Cutlass S cowl tags. The cowl tag only applies to Fisher Body, and as far as they were concerned, the 442 and Cutlass S bodies were exactly the same. The VIN tag was applied later on the assembly line.
Apparently this did not apply to all assembly plants. The California-built (Z) 442's had cowl tags with the 344 prefix.
It did apply to all assembly plants, just some transitioned to 344xx cowl tags sooner than others. The earliest transition appears to have occurred at the Oshawa plant, sometime early in the 1968 model year. Fremont appears to have been next, also in 1968. Ironically Lansing was last, as my April 1969 build H/O still has a Cutlass S cowl tag.
It did apply to all assembly plants, just some transitioned to 344xx cowl tags sooner than others. The earliest transition appears to have occurred at the Oshawa plant, sometime early in the 1968 model year. Fremont appears to have been next, also in 1968. Ironically Lansing was last, as my April 1969 build H/O still has a Cutlass S cowl tag.
Piling on, my May '69 H/O still has 33687 and the last H/O Convert, recently at MCACN, is a June '06A' Cowl still with 33667.
Having been the guy that updates the certification tags at a car plant, if it's legal, it's sometimes whenever the engineer runs out of **** to do that things happen.
