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stage169 wrote:I understand.
RPO, QLEE & QLJE both are 78 x 14 (374 & 1140) from the 75 report
You have the same totals (374 & 1140) but show them as B78 x 13B with the codes of QLE & QLJ on your Buick Production List. 14" tire has been stuck in my head since I saw the report? That and a lot of other things
Some of the years name the colors different and codes. Look the same to me, I don't know. This is a bit of the 76 report and the hand written number is in the "Available Prior Year" column. There is no 16L for 76. Brian
stage169 wrote:I just threw in those Chevy RPO's to show the numerical order for all the years except 75.
Looking at the 78 report when Silver was 15L the "Available Prior Year" column is typed in NA. In 77 Silver was 13L. So the 76 report has the "Available Prior Year" column hand written in. Somebody took the time to gather that info and put it on the 76 report. Who knows if they made the color connection I guess it is possible with almost 70k TC cars made for 75 20k of them were 13L Silver. With both colors being offered that year I guess that has got to be correct? Need that 75 report don't we.......... HEHE, yeah, we definitely need the 1975 report - I'm sure the Vega guys would like us to get our hands on it as well.
The 75 Buick Vehicle Ordering Guide only shows three RPO's for tires QBR, QBY & QBV. It's dated 10-21-74, Who knows but that is a lot of cars made with 14" tires considering a 75 Hawk showed up with a Targa Band one of only 245 made with one in 75. Your certainly right about this, it does lead to some confusion (I have the same dated report) but looking at the actual Wholesale Car Order sheet, there are no options for tire size, just tire type (steel belted radial blackwall, whitewall and white billboard lettered tires as well as the bias ply whitewalls)
Hey Bryan we might be able to come close on Clyde's color. If you know the colors for the Monza in 75 and his is the only one not included for 76 we can get close. Just a thought.
I know what your saying but we don't know all the ROPO Codes for the 1975 colours (just the 2+2 hatchback colours, not the 'S' and TC ones), I know names, from the dealer brochures but little else and there were always 14 exterior colours offered each year, except that 1975 offered a whole bunch more due to the TC having it's own colours.
Hatchback - 11L-Antique White, 16L-Medium Gray Metallic, 21L-Silver-Blue Metallic, 26L-Bright Blue Metallic, 49L-Dark Green Metallic, 50L-Cream Beige, 51L-Bright Yellow, 75L-Light Red, 79L-Burgundy Metallic & 80L-Orange Metallic. The Towne Coupe came in these same colours as the Hatchbacks - Antique White, Bright Blue Metallic, Dark Green Metallic, Cream Beige, Bright Yellow, Light Red, Orange Metallic but also offered different colours - Silver Metallic, Dark Blue Metallic, Bronza Metallic, Firethorn Metallic, Light Green Metallic & Mahogany Metallic. That's 16 total colours with 16 different RPO COdes so we can't calculate Clyde's production number for his colour because the 1976 report only has 14 colours reported for the the Monza and some will be different from 75 to 76 (the gray and silver for example).
It just keeps getting deeper
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