General Motors Information Packages
Updated December 4, 2010
The GM Heritage Center has the information kits available online in .PDF document format. Note that .PDF files require Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Year | Model | ||||
1964 | Chevelle | El Camino | Chevy II/Nova | ||
1965 | Chevelle | El Camino | Chevy II/Nova | ||
1966 | Chevelle | El Camino | Chevy II/Nova | ||
1967 | Chevelle | El Camino | Camaro | Chevy II/Nova | |
1968 | Chevelle | El Camino | Camaro |
Chevy II/Nova - Coupe Chevy II/Nova - Sedan |
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1969 | Chevelle | El Camino | Camaro | Chevy II/Nova | |
1970 | Chevelle | El Camino | Monte Carlo | Camaro | Chevy II/Nova |
1971 | Chevelle | El Camino | Monte Carlo | Camaro | Chevy II/Nova |
1972 | Chevelle | El Camino | Monte Carlo | Camaro | Chevy II/Nova |
1973 | Chevelle | El Camino | Monte Carlo | Camaro | Chevy II/Nova |
1974 | Chevelle | El Camino | Monte Carlo | Camaro | Chevy II/Nova |
1975 | Chevelle | El Camino | Monte Carlo | Camaro | Chevy II/Nova |
1976 | Chevelle | El Camino | Monte Carlo | Camaro | Chevy II/Nova |
1977 | Chevelle | El Camino | Monte Carlo | Camaro | Chevy II/Nova |
Other Chevrolet models are also available online.
http://www.gmheritagecenter.com/gm-heritage-archive/vehicle-information-kits.html
If your car was originally sold or built in Canada, you will have to contact Vintage Vehicle Services in Canada. There is a fee for this service but they'll send you, what I refer to as a 'confirmation sheet' showing when/where the car was built along with all the options it came with. Latest information I have of the cost is $119.00 CDN as of October 2013; for U.S dollars, whatever the current exchange rate is. See here for more details.
Chevrolet produced more vehicles than all the other GM divisions
combined and thereby generated a much higher volume of records which
were a storage problem.
After the end of a year's production, the build records have very little business
value to Chevrolet and therefore were not considered to be high priority
for retention. GM record retention policy required the assembly plants
to retain said documents for only about six months. Some records (including
build sheets) were retained longer at the Corvette assembly plants, St.
Louis and Flint. However, when Corvette production ceased at these locations,
the records were pitched. It should be noted that the current Corvette
Assembly Plant in Bowling Green, KY, retained the 1981-present vehicle
manifests that are available now through the National Corvette Museum. This was against all
odds, as there were many movements over the years within GM to destroy
them because they had no business value to GM.
Meanwhile, back at the Tech Center in Warren, Michigan, the Chevrolet
Engineering Records Retention Policy called for periodic destruction
of non-essential records, of which the build documents were one, and
this was carried out on a routine basis. The other GM divisions, Cadillac,
Pontiac, etc., had much smaller production volumes and interpreted the
GM Records Retention Policy differently and therefore retained said
documents.
If GM changes the links to any of the files above, please let me know so I can track them down. As a last resort I have copies of ALL of these plus full size Chevrolets from 1955 through 1972 and Corvettes from 1953 through 2006.