Silver '68 - The Project Update

I never really liked those wheels, till I see yours. They look great on your car as the car looks great as well. I used to have a 68 silver, red interior AMX. It was a 290 auto car. Had Cragars, white letters, and a little lift in the rear to give it stance. Little 290 wasn't a slouch either.

There was a small white tag on the drivers door that said April 1970.  The car was delivered to the dealership in May 1970.  I also have the IBM card and the original owners manual with the delivery date.  The car has been in the family since 1972.

Never implied that dates on parts indicate the date they were installed on the cars. All I am saying is that there are plenty of examples of AMX's that have dates on parts that are only weeks apart from their estimated final build dates, compared to cars that have dates going back as far as 6 months on some individual parts.

The car in this thread has dates very close to the estimated final assembly, I dont think its unreasonable to consider the possibility that if leaf springs were manufactured after the engine manufacture date, that in this particular case the engine was in an inventory somewhere for what could have been a few weeks....and that this might not have been as uncommon as people think. Even by most estimates, if the engines were assembled up to 5-10 days before the cars were finished that is still thousands of engines sitting somewhere waiting for the car to hit that section of the assembly line. That would have to be a HUGE storage space, wich I would think could hold an extremely large inventory of drivetrain parts from wich I would think they only took what they needed to get to the assembly line on any given day.

348AMX wrote: amx39068 wrote: 348AMX wrote: Its also weird that the rear springs have a later date than the engine since a lot of people go by the engine tag to get the closest date to the approx final assembly date. The rear springs and engine were installed at the same place on the assembly line as well. So this is one example where an engine could have been in inventory for a bit before it got installed in the car. Engine dates pretty consistently predate the car's manufacturing date anywhere from 5 - 10 weeks. Seat tag dates appear to be very close to the actual manufacturing date and often within a week to 10 days. this car also continues to confirm from my research that the 68 AMX models built later in the calendar year had MUCH closer manufactured dates on the individual components than cars built a lot earlier in the 68 year; and the manufactured dates got a lot closer to the final assembly day when they rolled out of the factory. I would attribute this to the assembley line process getting more efficient as the model year progressed with the all new AMX. The leaf springs, valve cover, center speaker dash pad, and other dates he posted are all within several weeks of eachother and/or the approx day it rolled off the line.    I have researched this pretty thoroughly at this point and early cars had dates on parts that were MONTHS apart much more frequently.

Edited by Steve_P - Jun/08/2013 at 3:42pm

amx39068 wrote: 348AMX wrote: Its also weird that the rear springs have a later date than the engine since a lot of people go by the engine tag to get the closest date to the approx final assembly date. The rear springs and engine were installed at the same place on the assembly line as well. So this is one example where an engine could have been in inventory for a bit before it got installed in the car. Engine dates pretty consistently predate the car's manufacturing date anywhere from 5 - 10 weeks. Seat tag dates appear to be very close to the actual manufacturing date and often within a week to 10 days.

this car also continues to confirm from my research that the 68 AMX models built later in the calendar year had MUCH closer manufactured dates on the individual components than cars built a lot earlier in the 68 year; and the manufactured dates got a lot closer to the final assembly day when they rolled out of the factory. I would attribute this to the assembley line process getting more efficient as the model year progressed with the all new AMX.
The leaf springs, valve cover, center speaker dash pad, and other dates he posted are all within several weeks of eachother and/or the approx day it rolled off the line.

   I have researched this pretty thoroughly at this point and early cars had dates on parts that were MONTHS apart much more frequently.

Edited by 348AMX - Jun/07/2013 at 1:28pm