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Originally Posted by RustyBucket
The yellow "INSPECTION SHEET" is dated 4/24/71 in the Car Shipper Date at the bottom. Do you know about how long that date would be after the actual build date? How long did new trucks sit before they were shipped?
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It really depends on how well the build goes; trucks that don't require a lot of repair squirt right through.
My '87 cleared the end of the final line at about 10 or 11 pm on Monday 9/29/86. I drove it off the line and directly to the shipping building myself and left the plant about 1am Tuesday morning. By 5pm that same day it was sitting at Graff Chevrolet in Davison (approx. 13 miles from Flint Assembly).
On the other hand: we've had trucks "get lost" in the back yard. Some of them we gave up looking for and built another identical truck to replace it. Lost vehicles usually turn up at model changeover, when production is halted and the repair backlog is worked down to zero.
So - somewhere in between those two extremes. Usually within 8 to 48 hours, though.
K