Awhile back, a '70 Judge was on ebay with two PHS Invoice records, one issued when the car was put into service as a PMD Co. Car, the other when it was sold to the Dealer. I assume the original invoice was a paperwork accounting, no money actually changed hands except on the Corp. books. Then there was the Dealer Invoice which reflected the actual price it sold at to the Dealer several months later.
The 1st Invoice shows "30%" followed by a price in the box just to the left of the SUGGESTED RETAIL PRICE box. It is not clear what the 30% represents or where the price amount in that box comes from. There is no Destination charge or Hold Back amount, but the total F.D.H (factory to dealer holdback incentive?) amount is shown along with the usual Total of Car & Option cost plus Dest. plus F.D.H. plus any zone advertising fee (none in this case). But that total does not equal the amount shown after the 30%.
The 2nd Invoice shows "5 PCT. CAR" at the bottom of the list of options. An SRP amount is listed, the Sales Code is "OPT" and then the cost amount is listed. It isn't clear how these dollar amounts were figured, the cost is a much smaller percentage than the typical nominal 70-75% of SRP used for everything else. And no F.D.H. is added for this line item.
The option cost and F.D.H. amounts are unchanged from the 1st Invoice but the Dealer Cost of the car itself is reduced by over $450 (but the F.D.H. for the car remains the same) and that is reflected in the total car & option cost which is reduced by the same amount.
The 2nd Invoice adds a Destination amount.
What is weird, if you take the Car & Option Cost amount from the 2nd Invoice, add the unchanged F.D.H., add the SRP amount shown for the "OPT", the total is identical to the amount shown on the 1st Invoice after the 30%.
It isn't very clear what the final dealer invoice amount was. The Invoice amount shown on the 2nd Invoice includes a Dest. charge but does not account for the OPT charge listed on it. The dollar amount listed after 30% on the 1st Invoice is about $100 higher the the 2nd Invoice amount and accounts for the OPT charge from the 2nd Invoice but includes no Dest. charge.
Either way, it is clear that the Dealer acquired the car at a discount even though he could sell it as a "new" car with full warranty. Whether the "OPT" code cost was added to the Dealer Invoice or maybe was added to Pontiac's cost as an accounting manipulation so that they showed a smaller profit on the sale of the car, I have no idea.
The nos. after the CC probably just identified the car within the Pontiac co. car fleet. Probably an asset ID no. plus a Dept. identification. When the car was put into co. car service, the Dept. that had use of it probably took a hit against their budget, then when it was sold, they got a credit back to their budget.
Those Option & Process codes are kinda universal across GM and have been for decades. But that doesn't mean that every vehicle can be built with every code. The meaning of many codes remained relatively unchanged thru the years, but some codes were "recycled". It really throws some guys for a loop when they see the RAIV engine code L67 have relevance to a Chevy engine, or applied to a semi-econo motor in some later year. Or when I mention that the WS6 was nothing more than the UPC designation for the Power Assist Group option for the '70 A body (PDB, PS, and Auto. Trans). I like to gig the Chevy folks that the sacred Z28 model designation was simply derived from the internal UPC designation for the package. Not a real sexy way to select a model name. What if the GTO had been called the W62 instead? Would Ronnie and the Daytonas have sung; "Turn it on, wind it up, blow it out, W62!".
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