kmccabe56 wrote ...
From what I'm led to understand, in situations like Venturer's, cars with a particularly labour intensive build (bucket seats, console etc) would be batch run through the assembly plant for several reasons. (a) probably a low volume installation so the assembly line guys weren't familiar with how to build them and running them in batches was educational for them. (b) could be that the seat vendor, or the upholstery room within the plan had to reconfigure itself to build bucket seats instead of bench seats and they didn't want to switch back and forth for just a few sets, so they'd wait until they had a day's worth to build. (c)because something about these cars was a low volume build, they'd all likely have the same sort of quality issues when they got to the end of the line that required going into a major repair bay to have the seats pulled out. Could be wiring issues, could be a/c related, could be parts missing. There's a myriad of possibilities. If two or more cars with the same colour interior ended up side by side in the repair bay, all of the seats would be removed and basically put into a single pile. Since they all had the same colour and the seats were otherwise the same (left & right), there was no need to match the seats back up to a particular vin by the broadcast sheets that may or may not have been stuffed into them.

So, as whacky as it sounds, this, in a nutshell, is just one of the ways you end up with a broadcast sheet for someone else's car in your own.

The main reason broadcast sheets were left in cars was simply because the cars were being used as garbage cans. Rather than have the assembly line guys remove the sheets from the cars, have the assembly plant place trash barrels along the line every so often and then have to have other people take the barrels away periodically to empty them, it was just cheaper to leave the sheets tucked somewhere inside the car. Leaving them in the cars was a cost save for Chrysler and a bonus for us.

relbmar16 wrote ...



You would be amazed at how much paper and junk would be in each car, I use to prep them for sold cars and showroom cars. You'd have two brown cardboard floor mats, plastic on the door panels, plastic on the seats, one or two broad cast sheets, carbon paper and various card board protectors for certain interior parts. 10 cars would fill up an entire trash can with paper and plastic...and then I had to empty the trash in the dumpster.....but it was the bast job in the world for a 17 year old kid. I loved driving the C bodies, and B bodies. I was very fond of the DIplomats too. I hated the stripped down Aspens and left over 76 Darts. But now I love those cars. The trucks, had even more trash in the cars to throw away than the cars.