Actual Production Date VS "Scheduled Production Date"

[6bblgt]

the SPD on the fender tag/broadcast sheet is just what it calls itself the "SCHEDULED Production Date", good to know, but when was the car "BUILT"?  A car can be built many days early or late - I've been working on "ACTUAL Production Date" calendars for a number of model years & plants, HAMTRAMCK 1970 among them.

the recently started broadcast sheet thread initiated this one:

https://forum.e-bodies.org/vin-fender-tag-build-sheet-and-date-codes/13/e-body-broadcast-sheet-reference-library-just-scanned-broadcast-sheets-please/804/

- add a b'cast sheet pic in the other thread & I'll add the info here, sounds simple enough 

[6bblgt]

"xs29j8"
1970 Challenger T/A JH23J0B307xxx with a 414-SPD (Tuesday April 14) was "In Plant/In Process" on Friday April 10, 1970  = EARLY

this Challenger T/A was among 4,650 Dodge e-bodies built during the month of April combined at both the Hamtramck, MI & Los Angeles, CA assembly plants
the #7 (of 12) most productive month of Challenger production for the 1970 model year

[6bblgt]

"Cuda Cody"
1970 Challenger T/A JH23J0B276xxx with a 313-SPD (Friday March 13) was "In Plant/In Process" on Tuesday March 17, 1970  = LATE

@Cuda Cody  I missed an Easter holiday & that would move this car to Wednesday March 11, 2 days ahead of schedule

this Challenger T/A was among 5,961 Dodge e-bodies built during the month of March combined at both the Hamtramck, MI & Los Angeles, CA assembly plants
the #5 (of 12) most productive month of Challenger production for the 1970 model year

[ToxicWolf]

I just go by the sticker on the door for the actual production date.

[Cuda Cody]

What's the best way to tell when a car was actually built compared to when it was scheduled to be built?  You need a lot of sheets to build up a sequence calendar, right?   Plus the Door Mylar.  This would be great if we can put something like this together!   

[6bblgt]

I just go by the sticker on the door for the actual production date.

for a '70 model year vehicle - to door sticker only gives the month

[6bblgt]

"Cuda Cody"
1970 Challenger T/A JH23J0B279xxx with a 317-SPD (Tuesday March 17) was "In Plant/In Process" on Tuesday March 17, 1970  = on SCHEDULE

@Cuda Cody  I missed an Easter holiday & that would move this car to Wednesday March 11, 6 days ahead of schedule

this Challenger T/A was among 5,961 Dodge e-bodies built during the month of March combined at both the Hamtramck, MI & Los Angeles, CA assembly plants
the #5 (of 12) most productive month of Challenger production for the 1970 model year

[6bblgt]

What's the best way to tell when a car was actually built compared to when it was scheduled to be built?  You need a lot of sheets to build up a sequence calendar, right?   Plus the Door Mylar.

Yes & Yes - and fake b'casts stick out like a sore thumb 

[cataclysm80]

- add a b'cast sheet pic in the other thread & I'll add the info here, sounds simple enough 

I'm going to have fun with this one too, thanks Dan!

[Burdar]

Going by memory here at the moment but...

73 Challenger Rallye
927 SPD (September 27, 1972)
October 1972 door sticker
101212 MDH code on door sticker (built two weeks late)

[6bblgt]

you're right, mid-model year 1972 it's easy if you can look at your original door sticker 

[6bblgt]

& here come the excuses ..... 

"ec_co"
since so few LA broadcast sheets seem to have survived - the info just isn't out there; but Chrysler was busy in August, producing 3,358 Plymouth e-bodies in MI & CA combined (#7 most productive month of 12).
'70 model year production started on Monday 8/18/69 at LA & with your Barracuda "SCHEDULED" for 8/22, you can see it wasn't too far from the front of the line.
LA when up to speed & running at full steam ran 1 shift on one assembly line building ~300 cars per day (not so much the first couple of weeks)

"Cuda Cody"
HEMI 'cuda BS23R0B146xxx assembly Line #1 A06-SPD; October is the busiest E-Body month, more than 26,000 built - I need more data
HEMI Challenger R/T JS23R0B201xxx assembly line #2 B25-SPD; November is the #2 most productive month & line #2 was running ~85 cars per hour (it does have an "11-1969" door sticker, correct?)

[cataclysm80]

OK, I posted mine.   

[Finoke]

Hi Dan,
I just posted two cars that you may find interesting. Any info is much appreciated.
Tom

[ec_co]

interesting info on that /6 sheet, I wish mine had been in the car. that sheets VIN ends in 0677 and mine ends in 0322, so it sounds like a good possibility that mine may have been a day 2 build (roughly)? I know of a /6 Challenger (LA build also) still on the road with the VIN ending within 100 of mine