The factories did a lot of strange things in those days. I worked for a
body shop in 1955-57, and one of the owners loved Pontiac's, but hated
the interiors. He loved the olds interiors (this may have been the
other way around) and ordered his cars that way every two years. It
seems to me he picked them up in Detroit, and he told me they had to
bring the interiors over from one factory to the other to add it to the
line.
My best buddy ordered a '57 Fury from the dealer, and we bought Smitty
Steel Packs and kept pouring Gas into them and burning them out in his
field. When the car came in we took them down and had the dealer
install them. That way when he was stopped for muffler violation, he
could honestly say "It came from the Dealer that way".
In '94 I ordered a '95 Dakota for my son thru a contact in Chrysler and
when it arrived at the dealer, lots of what he ordered were
incorporated into a "Factory Package" that the dealer couldn't find in
his paperwork, plus it had some other things on it that were included.
The Dealer had to change all his invoicing so my son could pay what the
sticker said and He was still scratching his head when the truck left.
Ray
On Nov 22, 2007, at 10:00 AM, DupontTim@xxxxxxx wrote:
Furthermore according to the IBM card when the car I own was built it
was coded for new car prep and customer pickup at the factory, It would
be hard to believe that they would do new car prep to a car that would
require extensive retrofitting, it just wouldn't be ordered that way.
The high prices for the performance groups may have contributed to the
practice of creating many "Dealer jobs" that would cut back on some of
the upgrades and lower the high price to a more reasonable figure,
after all we are talking Dodges and Plymouths not Imperials or 300's.
Tim in Golden 56 D500-1
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