[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by Held for Ransom

Day 48 could be Jan. 5 (Friday). Still trying to verify.
I can't believe they didn't get off one or two days for Thanksgiving.
One day for Christmas.
One day for the New Year.
Hard to believe they started production on Veteran's day, '72.

We get Thanksgiving and the day after as official holidays.

We normally get the time off between Christmas and New Years. Skilled trades might be working to do maintenance or process revisions, but you wouldn't normally run production unless you were trying to make up for previous downtime or building a really hot product.

November 11th would be a really late start of production in general but I'm no expert on F car model changes of any era.

I also believe you need to add some fuzz around the ship date and build date information. In some cases it is a projection of what you intend to happen and you can be off a day or so due to unforeseen circumstance. In other cases even when it is attempting to document an event it can be off.

I followed my pickup truck down the line and drove it to the shipping building myself. Thirty years later when I ordered the build documents through the GM Heritage Center I noticed the shipping date was off by a day. The only way a person would know that is if they were standing right there.

Bottom line is they just can't shoot that straight.

K