GM Engineering Sticker
04-19-2014, 02:40 PM
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GM Engineering Sticker
I recently was able to purchase a 64 Convertible 327/365 that my father was the original owner of (thanks to Easy Rhino) It has this parking sticker on the rear-view mirror. Trying to document ownership history. would be interested to know who at GM owned it after my father. Any ideas let them be known
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04-19-2014, 03:30 PM
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Are you certain your father was the original owner?
GM Tech Center (and other GM engineering centers) assigned new cars to engineers and management employees for "evaluation". They were driven about 6 months and then sold as used cars at substantial discount (paperwork done by GM dealers, who got a cut, because GM had agreements with their dealers that prevented GM from selling direct). The cars were usually sold to other GM employees who were not in a position that afforded them a company car, but expressed interest by signing up on a list for specific models and accessories. Employees who purchased such cars had to agree to keep the car at least a year, but some of them did not honor that pledge and bought/sold the cars to supplement their income. The list of employees vying for the cars was a 2-tier list, with higher-up employees getting first dibs on cars being sold.
I worked at the Chevrolet Engineering Center (north of Detroit) back in the day; we did not have parking stickers, but I think the GM Tech Center next door did restrict parking, so any car undergoing engineering "evaluation" by an employee, or any car owned by an employee, probably had a parking sticker.
If your dad was not a GM employee, he still might have purchased it from a dealer as the "original" owner (although, Corvettes normally were in demand and were snapped up by employees offered that opportunity... I recall in 1963 there were probably two or three times more wanna-be buyers than there were evaluation Corvettes).
GM Tech Center (and other GM engineering centers) assigned new cars to engineers and management employees for "evaluation". They were driven about 6 months and then sold as used cars at substantial discount (paperwork done by GM dealers, who got a cut, because GM had agreements with their dealers that prevented GM from selling direct). The cars were usually sold to other GM employees who were not in a position that afforded them a company car, but expressed interest by signing up on a list for specific models and accessories. Employees who purchased such cars had to agree to keep the car at least a year, but some of them did not honor that pledge and bought/sold the cars to supplement their income. The list of employees vying for the cars was a 2-tier list, with higher-up employees getting first dibs on cars being sold.
I worked at the Chevrolet Engineering Center (north of Detroit) back in the day; we did not have parking stickers, but I think the GM Tech Center next door did restrict parking, so any car undergoing engineering "evaluation" by an employee, or any car owned by an employee, probably had a parking sticker.
If your dad was not a GM employee, he still might have purchased it from a dealer as the "original" owner (although, Corvettes normally were in demand and were snapped up by employees offered that opportunity... I recall in 1963 there were probably two or three times more wanna-be buyers than there were evaluation Corvettes).
04-19-2014, 04:45 PM
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Yes. on the original owner, I have the original bill of sale from Industrial Motor Sales, Ecorse Michigan dated Dec 17,1963 for a whopping $ 4270.15 delivered
04-19-2014, 06:23 PM
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Are you certain your father was the original owner?
GM Tech Center (and other GM engineering centers) assigned new cars to engineers and management employees for "evaluation". They were driven about 6 months and then sold as used cars at substantial discount (paperwork done by GM dealers, who got a cut, because GM had agreements with their dealers that prevented GM from selling direct). The cars were usually sold to other GM employees who were not in a position that afforded them a company car, but expressed interest by signing up on a list for specific models and accessories. Employees who purchased such cars had to agree to keep the car at least a year, but some of them did not honor that pledge and bought/sold the cars to supplement their income. The list of employees vying for the cars was a 2-tier list, with higher-up employees getting first dibs on cars being sold.
I worked at the Chevrolet Engineering Center (north of Detroit) back in the day; we did not have parking stickers, but I think the GM Tech Center next door did restrict parking, so any car undergoing engineering "evaluation" by an employee, or any car owned by an employee, probably had a parking sticker.
If your dad was not a GM employee, he still might have purchased it from a dealer as the "original" owner (although, Corvettes normally were in demand and were snapped up by employees offered that opportunity... I recall in 1963 there were probably two or three times more wanna-be buyers than there were evaluation Corvettes).
GM Tech Center (and other GM engineering centers) assigned new cars to engineers and management employees for "evaluation". They were driven about 6 months and then sold as used cars at substantial discount (paperwork done by GM dealers, who got a cut, because GM had agreements with their dealers that prevented GM from selling direct). The cars were usually sold to other GM employees who were not in a position that afforded them a company car, but expressed interest by signing up on a list for specific models and accessories. Employees who purchased such cars had to agree to keep the car at least a year, but some of them did not honor that pledge and bought/sold the cars to supplement their income. The list of employees vying for the cars was a 2-tier list, with higher-up employees getting first dibs on cars being sold.
I worked at the Chevrolet Engineering Center (north of Detroit) back in the day; we did not have parking stickers, but I think the GM Tech Center next door did restrict parking, so any car undergoing engineering "evaluation" by an employee, or any car owned by an employee, probably had a parking sticker.
If your dad was not a GM employee, he still might have purchased it from a dealer as the "original" owner (although, Corvettes normally were in demand and were snapped up by employees offered that opportunity... I recall in 1963 there were probably two or three times more wanna-be buyers than there were evaluation Corvettes).
04-20-2014, 06:09 AM
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I worked at the Chevrolet Engineering Center (north of Detroit) back in the day; we did not have parking stickers, but I think the GM Tech Center next door did restrict parking, so any car undergoing engineering "evaluation" by an employee, or any car owned by an employee, probably had a parking sticker.
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04-20-2014, 08:36 PM
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