68 plymouth build date

[XMAN JR]

On my dads 68 GTX fender tag the build date is A12. According to a site I was on that is the build date code. I cant find what that date is. Any ideas ?

 

[hopper]

I believe it would be October 12 1967

 

[XMAN JR]

I believe it would be October 12 1967

Now would that be considered a early build for a 68 car

 

[hopper]

I think that depends on your definition of early-Does the speedometer read to 15 or 150? supposedly if to 150, that makes it an early build, which I've read, should be built before October. After this they changed speedometer to 2 digits

 

[XMAN JR]

I think that depends on your definition of early-Does the speedometer read to 15 or 150? supposedly if to 150, that makes it an early build, which I've read, should be built before October. After this they changed speedometer to 2 digits

I reads 150 Just trying to figure things out on it. I was told they came with 2 diff. types of air cleaners depending on the build date.

 

[69L48Z27]

Oct of 67 is right on. And, yes that's an early model year car. New cars started in about Sept. anything usually before Dec is considered early.

 

[SoCal440GTX]

Mines A27 - October 27. I have the early speedo but later ashtray.

 

[68X426]

New cars started in about Sept. anything usually before Dec is considered early.

Mass production started on Tuesday August 1st in 1967 (St. Louis assembly plant). I have documentation on two August 1st St. Louis BBodies, and have data on three BBodies with Sunday July 30th build dates. Those 3 are executive cars (all are GTXs).

To Xman:

The date on the tag is generally understood to be several days either side of the actual build date, most likely 2-3 after. No way to know exactly the day that any specific car rolled off as a finished car. ​

Also, "early" is a relative description. If yours is a St. Louis car then the October 12th date puts it at approximately the 39,285th car built out of an eventual 182,415 (+/-) cars thru Tuesday July 16th (1968). St. Louis then closed for 2 weeks for retooling and stocking parts for the August 1969 production start up. Your date is already past the 20% cars produced mark, I would think of it as being into the mid-year. I surmise that Lynch Road and L.A. would have had the same approximate percentages of production.​

August saw approximately 12,000 St. Louis built BBodies, those are certainly early. It's all relative after that. September had approximately 19,000 cars, so yours is "born" about 2 and 1/2 months into the year and more than 20% of the final total. By December 1st the count is over 70,000, at 40%. Thus early is a relative term.

 

[MrJLR]

My 68 Cuda was built September 7th, 1967 but speedometer uses the 2 diget system. ....

Jeff