[1gmman]

As an X-Chevrolet employee, we were asked by Jim Perkins while he was general manager of Chevrolet Division in 1991 to try and locate where the old Chevy records were. Unfortunately, that program was short lived and it got squashed by a number of then current Chevrolet employees.

Again in 2002, the Chevrolet general manager, Kurt Ritter, commissioned us to look for any and all old Chevrolet records. Our search lasted almost fourteen months and we were able to find a lot of good information on Chevys past. All of that material is currently at the GM Heritage Center.

We also discovered during our search that sometime in the 1991-92 time-frame an employee of General Motors Corp. (not Chevrolet) was in charge of disposing non-essential materials held by the company. This person discovered that Chevy had an off-site storage facility that they had been leasing for years. When they learned that it was old microfilm beyond the seven years that needed to be retained, a scrap order was issued. That material was the old Chevrolet microfilm build records! It was destroyed out of stupidity and not to cover-up anything else!

That is the true story on the Chevrolet records!

Jim Mattison
PHS