Interesting thread.
Couple things jumped out at me as I read thru it. Troubling that 2P continues to be incorrectly decoded using references that were published decades ago. Not to knock the seminal work by early researchers. But it has always been my fear whenever I’ve put something in print, bad info never goes away. I hesitated to publish my ‘64 KC/Balt decode article for that reason, tried to include caveats for anything that I was not very certain about.
BVZ, did you mean to say ‘65 in your last post? I don’t collect ‘65 data so wasn’t sure if you were referring to ‘65’s or not.
I did want to clarify the ‘64 5Z code. At the Pontiac Plant in ‘64, unlike KC and Balt, Fisher Body DID code the Standard Seat Belts on the Data Plate AFTER December’63 even though they had been made standard content. They were coded as 5Z.
KC did not code them after December. It was weird that they were coded at the Pontiac Plant at that point since the purpose was to identify modifications to the standard content.
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