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1969 Camaro Fisher Body Unit Number Plate
 1967 Trim Tags |
 1968 Trim Tags |
 1969 Trim Tags |
Los Angeles, California assembly plant
(early-note LOS plant designation)
Los Angeles, California assembly plant (late-note VN plant
designation)
Norwood, Ohio assembly plant
Norwood, Ohio assembly plant. Due to the extended 1969 model year
production at Norwood, body number were reset in August of 1969 to
100000.
Typical 1969 Fisher Body plate breakdown
Do not confuse the Fisher Body unit number plate information with that found on the Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) plate. The series depiction on the Fisher Body unit number plate does NOT have the same meaning as the VIN plate.
Some assembly plants have more information on their plates than others and some have information on different lines. Please check the individual assembly plants for specifics.
Line 1: The first two-digit number on line two is the model year of production followed by Fisher Body style number, assembly plant, and the Fisher Body unit number used for production purposes.
SERIES/MODEL IDENTIFICATION (only body style is distinguished)
12437 CAMARO COUPE
12467 CAMARO CONVERTIBLE
Line 2: Interior trim and lower/upper paint codes.
Line 3: Production date of vehicle. A typical production date is 02B. Other plant specific codes appear on line 3 as well.
This production date of 02B decodes to February (02) in the
second
week (B).
Unfortunately, nobody can define what dates are associated with a
week letter.
| 01 - January | 07 - July |
| 02 - February | 08 - August |
| 03 - March | 09 - September |
| 04 - April | 10 - October |
| 05 - May | 11 - November |
| 06 - June | 12 - December |
A - First Week
B - Second Week
C - Third Week
D - Fourth Week
E - Fifth Week
PLANT DESIGNATION
NOR for Norwood and either LOS or VN for Los Angeles. Los Angeles changed from LOS to VN in mid-December of 1968.
FISHER BODY NUMBER
The 1969 model year body numbers were assigned by Chevrolet's central office and was sent to dealers as the order confirmation number. The numbers were unique for each plant and assigned from a common pool of numbers.
INTERIOR TRIM
Bench or bucket seat color and a letter to designate whether headrests were ordered. See the interior page for details.
PAINT COLOR
The paint code for lower and upper body colors are noted here with a 2-digit number for each. If a coupe was fitted with a vinyl top the second position is a letter corresponding to the vinyl top color; likewise if the car is a convertible the second position is a letter corresponding to the convertible top color. See the paint page for details. Special paint orders were handled by the Fleet & Special Order (F&SO) office (not the COPO office). Typically a special paint car would have a dash ( - ) character in the lower and/or upper body color position.
Bottom Line Codes
The bottom line information differed for each plant.
Los Angeles/Van Nuys used a date schedule code in the format of a single letter and a 1- to 3-digit number*. The letter is the scheduled approximate production day of a given month and the 3-digit number is the scheduled production number for the car on that day. The letter "A" would be the first day of the month for the Fisher Body production calendar and incremented one letter for each day to the end of the Fisher Body production calendar for that month. The 1- to 3-digit number was reset to 1 at the start of each production day and increased by 1 for each Chevrolet to be built. It should be noted that the Los Angeles assembly plant built both Camaros and full size Chevrolets in 1969 so this number would increment by 1 regardless of which Chevrolet was being built. A date code such as "V416" would mean the 22nd day of the production calendar and the 416th Chevrolet scheduled to be built that day.
| Letter Prod Day |
Letter Prod Day |
Letter Prod Day |
Letter Prod Day |
Letter Prod Day |
Letter Prod Day |
| A - 1 | B - 2 | C - 3 | D - 4 | E - 5 | F - 6 |
| G - 7 | H - 8 | I - 9 | J - 10 | K - 11 | L - 12 |
| M - 13 | N - 14 | O - 15 | P - 16 | Q - 17 | R - 18 |
| S - 19 | T - 20 | U - 21 | V - 22 | W - 23 | x - 24 |
| Y - 25 | Z - 26 |
* Very early production Camaros used a 4-digit number with
leading zeros when necessary.
Sometime in December Los Angeles changed the plant designation on
the trim tag from "LOS" or "VN" for Van Nuys.
| Norwood primarily used "X" codes and sometimes, not always, an additional RPO code. Exceptions to the "X" code are Z10 for Indy Pace Car coupes and Z11 for Indy Pace Car convertibles. | |
| With Z21 or Z22 | Without Z21 or Z22 |
| X11 ~ non-SS396, non-Z28, SS350 | X44 ~ non-SS, non-Z28 |
| X22 ~ SS396 | X55 ~ SS350 |
| X33 ~ Z28 | X66 ~ SS396 |
| X77 ~ Z28 | |
Most COPO Camaros were built with bodies coded with X11 or X44 with some early Yenko Camaros built with X66 coded bodies. Norwood sometimes, but not always, used the RPO code D80 to indicate the car was equipped with spoilers or the letter "A" for those equipped with power windows but neither of these were consistent.
Norwood introduced "X" coded trim tags in mid-December 1968. The Style Trim group, RPO Z21, was part of RPO Z22 Rally Sport option. All RS cars are part of the group with RP Z21 style trim. RS optioned Camaros can only be X11, X22, or X33. Hence X44, X45, X66 and X77 Camaros cannot have the Rally Sport style trim option.
| Non-SS | SS | |||||
| Code | X44 | X11 | X11 | X11 | X11 | X55 |
| Option | no Z21 no Z22 |
Z21 | Z22 | Z21 | Z22 | no Z21 no Z22 |
| Black Body Sill | no | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Rear Quarter Moldings | no | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Drip rail Moldings | no | yes | yes | yes | yes | no |
| Wheel Opening Moldings | no | yes | yes | yes | yes | `no |
| Wheel Opening Pinstripes | no | yes | yes | no | no | no |
| Bright Tail lamp Trim | no | yes | no | yes | no | yes |
| Bright Headlamp Bezel | no | yes | no | yes | no | yes |
As you can see the X11 code always includes the use of black body sill paint and trim moldings, X55 does not use the drip rail and wheel opening moldings.
| With Z21 or Z22 | Without Z21 or Z22 | ||||||||
| non-SS396/Z28 | SS396 | Z28 | non-SS/Z28 | SS350 | SS396 | Z28 | |||
| Features | X11 | X22 | X33 | Z10 | Z11 | X44 | X55 | X66 | X77 |
| Black Body Sill | yes | yes | yes | no | no | no | yes | yes | no |
| Rear Quarter Moldings | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | yes | yes | no |
| Drip rail Molding | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | no | no | no | no |
| Blacked-out Tail pan | no | yes | no | no | no | no | no | yes | no |
| Z28 Stripe | no | no | yes | yes | yes | no | no | no | yes |
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