1968 Camaro Production Numbers by Plant

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1969 Plant Production Numbers
Month Los Angeles
Last Reported VIN		 Los Angeles
Production for Month		 Norwood
Last Reported VIN		 Norwood
Production for Month
August 1967     310,000 999
September 1967 304745 4,744 319989 18,988
October 1967 309652 4,906 337720 17,730
November 1967 315860 6,207 353898 16,117
December 1967 321968 6,107 368090 14,191
January 1968 328091 6,122 382800 14,709
February 1968 331484 3,392 392000 9,119
March 1968 335251 3,766 407303 15,302
April 1968 338564 3,312 426000 18,696
May 1968 342085 3,521 48000 21,999
June 1968 345432 3,345 462500 14,449
July 1968 349164 3,731 484735 22,234
Total
233,899(1)
49,163
21.02%		   184,734
78.98%

(1) Chevrolet's published figure for the 1968 model year are 235,147 units and this includes export models. However when one adds the Los Angeles figure of 49,163 and the Norwood figure of 184,734 one gets 233,897. This results in 1,250 total 1968 Camaros not accounted for via plant production totals. Percentages per plant are calculated on the 233,899 figure.

* Due to several limitations the VINs in this list will not necessarily correlate exactly with either a specific calendar day or the build week on the cowl tag. The data for some months (especially May and June 68 at Norwood) deviate significantly from actual build dates, while other months correlate well.
Source: http://camaros.org/geninfo.shtml#HowMany

Caveats and Disclaimers:

The numbers shown are reported last VINs from each plant per month. The numbers above those in red are instances of matching VIN and Fisher Body plates to show VINs/body dates outside the published numbers. The Fisher Body Number plate build week may not match the calendar week; meaning an example body date of 04A may not be the first physical or even calendar week of April. Productions are scheduled well in advance of actual build date and given it takes 3 to 4 days to physically build the car once it is scheduled, you can see where the body date will not always match up with the VIN sequence. Obviously the body plates, and the associated information, are stamped when the cars are scheduled, not as they roll by a particular station. Cars with 04A body dates may run into week 04B of production. GM wouldn't just toss out the existing body number plates with 04A just because the car didn't physically get completed until the following week.

Camaros were not necessarily assembled in VIN order. Often customer ordered Camaros were given priority over dealer stock Camaros. If Fisher Body had, say, 50 Camaros built and in their body bank and the plant received customer orders that matched some of those in color and Fisher Body options they would get 'pushed' to the front of the line to move to the Chevrolet Motors assembly side of the plant and sequenced accordingly. The build date on the Fisher Body Number plate is when the body was started and would be attached 3 to 4 days before final assembly began at Chevrolet's assembly side of the plant.

In reality, don't place too much emphasis on the body date as opposed to the last reported VIN for a given month. The anomalies shown are shown for that very reason. It does happen and that should not be a basis for worry that your car may have had the body plate (trim tag) and/or VIN altered.

If you have trim tags/VINs plates with dates and sequence numbers that don't fall into the range of those shown below, please email me the trim tag and sequence number and I'll post the oddity. Email it to me via my contact page.