[Shotimes] Re: Shotimes digest, Vol 1 #3320 - 9 msgs

[fwhittle@mindspring.com]

I, too, found a build sheet on top of my gas tank.  Some of it stayed stuck to the foam pad that it was sandwiched under.

Frank Whittle
'95 ATX

From: "Bill Murray" <fordsho@cloud9grafx.com>
To: "'Donald Mallinson'" <dmall@mwonline.net>, "SHOTimes"
  <Shotimes@autox.team.net>
Subject: RE: [Shotimes] Wierdest place to find a build sheet?
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 00:31:21 -0500

I found a build sheet on top of the gas tank when I was changing out
fuel pumps.  It wasn't a very detailed one from what I could read.  Most
of it had completely faded away.

Bill Murray

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Donald Mallinson [mailto:dmall@mwonline.net] 
> Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 11:38 PM
> To: Bruce Malachuk
> Cc: shotimes@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Wierdest place to find a build sheet?
> 
> 
> Bruce,
> 
> I found "a" build sheet for my '89 wadded up in the seat 
> springs under the passenger front seat.  I did an article on 
> these things for the Registry a couple years ago.
> 
> Each car can have several build sheets.  Some for the 
> interior, some for the frame or other major assemblies. 
> They all seem to have the entire car on them, but different 
> copies are used for different lines.
> 
> As that section of work is completed, workers quite often 
> stick these sheets somewhere in the car...why?  So the trash 
> goes out with the car.   Think about hundreds of sheets of 
> paper filling trash bins all day every day!
> 
> Most build sheets that survive are in the interior 
> somewhere, under the front seats is a favorite spot because 
> they are some of the last parts to go into the interior.
> 
> A few years of corvette had them on top of the gas tank, but 
> only a few years, but it has become legend.  Out tanks go in 
> a different way, and I don't think you will find any there.
> 
> Some get stuck behind the door panels.  Some get stuck under 
> the hood way back by the area where the inner fender, fender 
> and firewall intersect, nice deep spot where the paper won't 
> be seen easily and cause customer complaints.
> 
> Don Mallinson