[mike16]

Originally Posted by Keith Seymore

I don't recall any mandate to get rid of records. There are standardized retention periods depending on the type of documentation that are government regulations and those retention periods are still adhered to.

recollection is a funny thing when it comes to facts. Regardless, At least for GMC records, they were destroyed after the smoke cleared and the lawsuit ordeal was over. Any way It was discused at length on another site. I doubt GM would issue a directive stating to destroy records in order to prevent or avoid potential lawsuits. Maybe they are weary of storing the records in the office of the plaintifs leagal deffence team. My bad for assuming they would have the common sense to destroy all records to avoid future legal problems. Thier current woe's suggest they have a bit more to learn.

The reason the records don't exist is because there are/were so many, and there was no central repository. Nobody in the corporation (or on the outside) had the time or inclination to try and pull all that together. The Canadian records were saved because they were more manageable and co-located.

Not sure what you mean about there being so many that they dont exist. Those many records in GMC's case were soepena'd by the oposition as it were, Dont know if they were outsiders.....or not. but the potential risk was recognised and the records . in the GMC case were destroyed. and with it any way to determine the authenticity of GMC trucks. Cant speak for the destruction of the pontiac records, I read that they were salvaged before being destroyed on some other pontiac forum/website too. I know better than to believe anything I read on various forums having come up through the ranks doing corvettes. I aint buying the story, I'm buying the car. know what I mean? We got SPID's. That sorts out authenticity issues. Lawyers are funny about putting directives/mandates in writing, So perhaps we'll never know



The Pontiac documents were saved because they were financial records (invoices and billing history cards). The fact that they were valuable to historians and enthusiast was coincidental.

valuable to lawyers too

K

any way... We dont have the records to determine ho many were made, but the SPID can at least Id and authenticate them.