My Doraville '72 Grandville had a build sheet just laying underneath the passenger power split-bench seat in perfect condition. The original owner said he watched the dealer prep his special order car and when the guy found the sheet he made them give it to him so he could keep it (it looks brand new +50 years later). My '74 & '71 Southgate and '73 Pontiac plant didn't have one anywhere I could find - gas tank or elsewhere - nor any evidence one had ever been there. I believe the '67 Executive wagon's build sheet was taped to the gas tank. I had a '67 Bonneville with no evidence of one either.
My personal feelings... it seems the A & F body cars got considerably less scrutiny by the dealers for cleaning and prep compared to the B body cars, and probably less concern by the guys on the line for tossing them or catching the hiddens and tossing them. Fremont seems to be the plant that I've found the most in out of any given car I've had. I suspect the guys working the line would leave them in more regularly if the shift supervisors didn't grill them or scrutinize their work, or if they were just younger and lazier, or overworked because the line was flying building a car a minute. Which explains why sometimes you'd get 3-4 sheets for different cars all bunched up inside somewhere.
And to piggyback what Keith said, I've found build instruction sheets in my '86 Buick, my '02 Saturn, and even found a piece of what was a taped sheet in a rental Pontiac G6 above the glove box inside the dash. Sometimes the ways of the past are the most elegant and simple ways to continue building something even today.
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