I am wondering if the tag gives engine size and if 2 or 4 barrel, single or dual exhaust, if it was an AC car?


Steve

 

The body tag is concerned with what the Fisher Body plant had to do to accommodate the car's options. It doesn't reference engine/exhaust/driveline but some years it does indicate A/C with C60 or C61. Same as some years indicate vinyl top with C08.

Yours decodes as
69- 1969
3- Olds
36- Cutlass V8
67- convertible
LANXXXXXXX Lansing plant sequence
942- green bench seat interior
59- Meadow Green metallic paint
B- black convertible top (may be white depending on what the 69 default color was)
11B- built 2nd week November 1968

 

Nothing specific on carburetor or exhaust. Here's the breakdown.

69 33667: Model year 1969 (69), Oldsmobile (3) Cutlass V8 (36) convertible (67). The original engine would be 350cid and the 350 came in various configurations. The 350 2-bbl 250hp was standard (Cutlass, Cutlass S) with options that included the 310hp 4-bbl carb (Cutlass, Cutlass S) or the W31 (Cutlass S) with 325hp and a 4-bbl carb.

LAN: assembly plant = Lansing MI

181145 BDY = Fisher body number (no relationship to the VIN)

942 = interior color and front seat type = green interior with a bench seat

59 B: lower body color (59) = meadow green and convertible top color (B) = black

11B = time build code = November (11), second week of that month (B), 1968

Randy C.

 

Huge props to you Rocketraider and all like you. It is valuable and appreciated for so many of us with your knowledge and break down of body tags etc. It so does not go un-noticed. Thank you

 

Many here know as much or more than I do (see Randy Corrigan's post above) but thank you. Guess buying all these parts books, shop books and other references was worth it after all!

 

Seriously though. Your information and knowledge helps all of us. So Thank You.

 

It occurred to me afterwards that option are probably shown on the broadcast card?
Steve

 

Correct. But don't expect to find one in a Lansing car.

Bad as I hate to say it, Ford and Chrysler body tags were light-years ahead of GM's for car information. Ford's parts numbering system was better too.

 

I'm not sure if a broadcast card would show the engine option or not. A build sheet would show it but, like rocketraider said, finding a build sheet in a Lansing car is virtually impossible.

Randy C.