[rcorrigan5]

Another question regarding the trim tag body number of BT00038:

Would that have been the 38th GTO convertible from that plant from the start of the production year, or would it have been the 38th "A" body convertible built at that plant from the start of the production year (i.e., could the body number count include LeMans and Tempest convertibles, too?)?

I'm not surprised at the low convertible body number. In those days, I recall that convertibles were becoming less popular and the car companies were making fewer and fewer of them every year. Because of that, I don't think that a low convertible body number, even a few months into the production year, is out of order.

The key thing is that it is a convertible. My dad loved convertibles. And he always used to tell me: "The money is in the canvas". I heard a newer version of that statement a few years ago on the Barrett-Jackson Auction: "If the top goes down, the price goes up"!

Randy C.