How do you determine build date of 1968-1972 Chevy C10 pickups?

[jocko]

Originally Posted by franken

I'd ask, who cares? Also, why/how is the build date of a C10 different than a C20 or K10? The sequential number part of the VIN most likely begins at the beginning of the build run, so it's an indicator of when in the year the vehicle was built. Various castings have at least a month defined, from which a guess can be made as to when the vehicle came down the line.
But again, these are high volume, very similar vehicles. At least a million sold each year--they aren't Z16 65 SS Chevelles... Relax.

The OP cares, or he wouldn't have asked. It's reasonable question, and I didn't pick up on anyone sounding tense (until somewhere around post 8). Yes, they are "just trucks" but some folks on here would take a 67-72 pickup over a Z16 pretty much any day of the week (count me in that bunch). I look at it this way - if a million sold, then every one of our trucks is "one in a million" to us

[special-K]

Originally Posted by franken

I'd ask, who cares? Also, why/how is the build date of a C10 different than a C20 or K10? The sequential number part of the VIN most likely begins at the beginning of the build run, so it's an indicator of when in the year the vehicle was built. Various castings have at least a month defined, from which a guess can be made as to when the vehicle came down the line.
But again, these are high volume, very similar vehicles. At least a million sold each year--they aren't Z16 65 SS Chevelles... Relax.

Originally Posted by jocko

The OP cares, or he wouldn't have asked. It's reasonable question, and I didn't pick up on anyone sounding tense (until somewhere around post 8). Yes, they are "just trucks" but some folks on here would take a 67-72 pickup over a Z16 pretty much any day of the week (count me in that bunch). I look at it this way - if a million sold, then every one of our trucks is "one in a million" to us

He probably asked when he got annoyed by the "C10" mentality the same way I do. These are C/K 10-30 Chevy light trucks, and there are also C/K 1500-3500 GMCs. All this reference to all these trucks as C10s gets on my nerves. I've had very few C10s and dozens of 67-72 GM light trucks. And the funny thing is, this is a Car guy question and it's car converts who refer to these as C10s, would expect the build date on the SPID, and use the term body tag. At least that's how this long time just the trucks don't need no car guy sees it. The term "body" on a truck means what's behind the cab. It's a pickup body as opposed to all the others that could also be dropped onto the cab & chassis. And the VIN-plate is on the Cab. A cab & chassis truck comes with no body.

Kind of annoying how so many speak of these trucks as Chevys as a whole when there is their older brother GMC, the original General Motors Truck. I always use "GM Trucks" so as to not exclude either. Date codes don't matter in these trucks the way they do in a Z16 as a whole. If it matters to an individual that is their prerogative. But I'm talking resale value and I'm thinking that is what was meant by Franken's reference.