Some more comments.
For the Lemans convertible, the Window Sticker listed two additional "standard content" items.
These were:
LAMP-COURTESY and also POWER OPERATED TOP.
That is why C06 and U29 are asterisked.
The Power Top was optional for the Tempest Custom convertible but standard for the Lemans convertible and the Courtesy Lamp was optional on all models except the T.C convertible and Lemans convertible, standard for them.
They did not bother to indicate anything about it on the Window Sticker, but the F35 HD Frame was standard on the convertibles, so it also asterisked.
And the T60 HD Battery was asterisked as standard content on yours.
I'm not exactly sure why. Perhaps it was automatically included with the A/C option.
For GTOs, the HD Battery may have been optional early year. My late Nov '63 Fremont built GTO did not list the HD Battery. But by Feb., it seems every GTO lists the T60 HD Battery with the asterisk as standard content.
The A49 Front Pair Seat Belts w/ Retractors (the cheap-o winders) were an option. But after Dec., all GM cars included the A20 Front Pair Seat Belts, the standard ones without Retractors.
At that point, Pontiac raised the Base Price of every Model by $11 and lowered the price of the A49 option by $10.76. Effectively, after Dec. you were only paying for the winders when you ordered the A49 Sales Code 624 Custom Seat Belts w/ Retractors although the belts themselves were apparently a different style than the standard belts.
They also added an option to the Order Form so that you could order the Seat Belt Delete option and get an $11 credit to offset the price increase. This was rarely ordered.
I glanced over your production nos.
The GTO option was added to the base Lemans of course.
Do you know for sure that the production nos. you listed for the Lemans convertibles excluded the GTO convertibles?
I have never seen production nos. except for the GTO so I am curious if your nos. are accurate.
I believe on the Data Plate, they did not separate the GTO convertible Body count from the Lemans convertible Body count.
I do believe they DID separate the Tempest Custom convertible Body count from the Lemans convertible on the Data Plate.
But I was not aware that production nos. were available separating the GTO from the Lemans. Only way I knew to estimate the nos. was from the Data Plate using the Body No. counts from each Plant but those would have lumped the Lemans and GTO counts together.
One more item, the 2 bbl 326 was UPC L30.
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