What month and week was the 1st 1985 IROC/Z28 made?

 

Nobody knows? OK who has the earliest 1985 IROC here, I think mine was made the second week of march 1985, 03B.

 

I think mine is the first week of December 84. It says 12A. Is that correct?

 

Yes, that is correct.

1984 was a long model year. My '84 T/A was built the 5th week of 8/84 and I've heard that production went to the first week of October. I think you would see the first 1985 model year cars with a 10/84 build month.

 

I agree, the earliest '85 Camaro I've seen is FN102328 and it had a 10-84 build
date with a (10B) second week October on the trim tag. This was a Norwood car. Van Nuys will be a little different.
The first IROC ever built supposedly came out of the Norwood plant. I have seen this car at the '87 USCC Grand Nats held at Norwood in June 1987.
It was a Black L69 t-top car with silver decals. Did I get a VIN... no. Stupid me!!!!

 

Don't have an IROC, but there might be one made in Sept. I show a ship date of 10/9/84 on my allied vaughn invoice from norwood and VIN ending #1378. I realize that what's on paper might not always be accurate but it may lend the possibility of a 9/84 made IROC or earlier

 

Where' the tag located?

JamesC

 

The tag we are all going off of is under the air cleaner plastic on the brace that goes across the top. My sequence is 114346, what does this mean?

 

Camaro 14,346 off the assembly line at that plant. They will sometimes skips some sequence numbers so it may not be exactly 14,345 cars built before yours.

 

Sorry, I don't understand--I've never seen a tag like the one above and I've been though my car from top to bottom over the years. My 85 IROC was originally a carbed car, if that makes a difference.

JamesC

 

I don't know. Thats a good question. I wonder if they put it in a different spot.

 

The Fisher Body tag is on the radiator support in front of the black plastic upper radiator shroud. They phased out the tag sometime during the 1985 model year so later cars won't have it.

 

Mine doesn't. So does that mean that my car, and cars like mine, have later build dates or does the lack of the tag simply cloud matters?

Hey, my car is one of the 21,177 IROC's manufactured in 85 (and Met. Silver to boot), so I'm happy enough regardless--I mean of that number, how many can be left?

JamesC

 

You sure it wasn't late in the '84 model year? My car is pretty much the way it left the factory as far as the body goes. I still have the original stickers on the radiator support. No indication that anything ever was in the area where the body tag should be. I don't think it rotted neither do I think there has been any body work on it. Was built in July of '84.

 

There are two tire pressure and certification decals in the driver's door jam and one of them has the vehicle build month and year on it. The last six digits in the VIN number will also give an idea of when the car was made. I'm not sure why they phased out the Fisher Body tag.

 

It was 1985. My '84 T/A was built a month after yours and it has the Fisher Body tag. Production on the car started 8/29/84 to be exact.

Given the quality control back then it wouldn't surprise me if they either forgot to attach one or the rivets were poorly done and it fell off.

 

Thanks, I figured it didn't hurt to ask.

 

my 1985 base bird is VIN 626698 out of Van Nuys and it still got the Fisher body tag on the cowl plate, so I agree with Dens71TA that it was discontinued mid-year 85

 

Mine's 168530. Norwood.

JamesC

 

how do you figure out your production date using the VIN? my tags on the side of my door are beyond viewable..... since this thread started, i would really like to know.. Mine too is one of the 21,117 made in 85 and i was just wondering if someone could help me figure out the actual production date and where she came from....

Thanks

 

11th VIN digit will tell which plant. N for Norwood, L for Van Nuys. Somebody else can explain the sequence number creation better than I

 

ok, Van Nuys is covered, now for when it was made... any other helpers....

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THAT PIECE OF HELP! PRECIATE IT!

 

The short explanation is the higher the last six digits are the later your car was built in the model year. But each factory had their own respective numbers so yours would be the X car built at Van Nuys, not total production. If you do post the numbers DON'T post the whole VIN with it. People (depending on opinion) might get on your case for that. Thats the short version. I tried my long version elsewhere but it wasn't completely accurate. Some of the others will know.

The Tag in the picture on the second Post on this thread is another way to know that if you have it. Mine is gone so I am going to have to go by either the build sheet if I can find it, or the VIN and roughly date it.

 

Mine's 151486 and doesnt have the tag either. It was also built in Norwood in 1985.

 

Does anyone have a norwood camaro with this tag, maybe it's only used at van nuys.

 

Yep my 11th digit is an N, so mine is Norwood. You guys have to be on to something with the production date thing. I mean what else could it be?