Build Sheet Location on a 1966 Impala

They also stuffed them in the doors between the door panel and the weather proofing waxed paper; under the trunk on top of the gas tank, and up under the dash.

Remember there was more than one build sheet, each station had access to them as it rolled down the line and they removed them to verify the correct parts were installed and then discarded them wherever they would have to expend the least amount of work without littering their work station. There have been upwards of five build sheets found on a single vehicle; but it could contain none. Depends upon how lazy the worker was and strict his supervisor about trash as to were he stashed it.

Build sheets were an assembly tool to speed production while assuring accuracy; not documentation destined for authentication decades in the future.

Big Dave

You can use them for documentation if you can find them. The point being, not every car has a build sheet in it. It was trash used by bean counters at the assembly plant to control inventory. It was nothing more than a coded set of instruction that told a worker what part to pick up and bolt onto the car that was in front of him while he was talking to his neighbor about a base ball game or when they would next get together to go bowling.

Once the parts was bolted onto the car the build sheet became trash he was suposed to throw it away; not stuffit in the car. It was just often more convient for a lazy auto worker to stuff it in the car than to walk three feet to the trash can sometimes.

I have found partial build sheets in many strange places lightening cars to strip them of excess weight before turning them into race cars (though never one above a gas tank which I often remove all together in favor of a lighter fuel cell mounted in a hole I cut in the trunck floor). Most of them have been under the dash stuffed in the wiring of cars with stereo radios and A/C. Found one under a factory console.

Big Dave