1970 Chevelle Production Numbers by Individual Plant

Month	Atlanta-A	Arlington-R	Baltimore-B	Flint-F
August 1969*	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
September	100590	no production reported	107903	113088
October	107576	no production reported	112644	no production reported
November	114720	no production reported	122126	no production reported
December	120360	200126	131318	no production reported
January 1970	128747	206284	142435	113088
February	136997	212783	157041	119181
March	146144	221198	168120	132144
April	154875	234903	182090	146868
May	166571	248727⁽³⁾	195247	160707
June	177542	263341	208612	175868
July	182496	269839	217497	187922
Total 660,012⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾	82,496 12.50%	69,839 10.58%	117,497 17.80%	87,922 13.32%

Month	Kansas City-K	Van Nuys-L	Oshawa-1
August 1969*	n/a	n/a	n/a
September	112249	118272	508901
October	123529	135448	516327
November	134320	149521	522930
December	146720⁽³⁾	159233⁽³⁾	528123
January 1970	159177	167285	535843
February	172748	174150	542166
March	184004⁽³⁾	181251	547904
April	194708	188118	556190
May	204461	195823	563726
June	215289	203572	571980
July	222339	207939	no production reported
Total 660,012⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾	122,339 18.54%	107,939 16.35%	71,980 10.91%

* Although there are 1970 Chevelles with body dates in August, 1969, August and September totals are listed in September only. One such documented August car is from Flint with a body assembly date of 8C and sequence number of 102249.

As suspected, 1970 would present a unique set of challenges. The Monte Carlo production is included in the VIN sequence and production total negating any way of separating out the Chevelle VIN sequencing.

⁽¹⁾ Chevrolet's published figure for the 1970 model year is 633,945 units and include Monte Carlo production (although MC production is put at 145,975 or 145,976 units [depending on the source]) so there does not appear to be an accurate way to know what the last Chevelle VIN would be for any given plant/month. This is still 26,067 units less reported than plant figures above indicate. A reported 3,527 Chevelles were built in Caracas, Venezuela. Whether these units are included in Chevrolet's report is unknown. Canadian Classic Chevelles & Beaumonts puts Canadian production totals at 71,980.

⁽²⁾ This figure does include Oshawa, Ontario, Canada.

⁽³⁾ There are known Chevelles with VIN number higher than end of the month reported VIN.

Caveats and Disclaimers:

The numbers shown are reported last VINs from each plant per month. The numbers above those in red are instances of matching VIN and Fisher Body plates to show VINs/body dates outside the published numbers. The Fisher Body Number plate build week not match the calendar week; meaning an example body date of 04A may not be the first physical or even calendar week of April. Productions are scheduled well in advance of actual build date and given it takes 3 to 4 days to physically build the car once it is scheduled, you can see where the body date will not always match up with the VIN sequence. Obviously the body plates, and the associated information, are stamped when the cars are scheduled, not as they roll by a particular station. Cars with 04A body dates may run into week 04B of production. GM wouldn't just toss out the existing body number plates with 04A just because the car didn't physically get completed until the following week.

In reality, don't place too much emphasis on the body date as opposed to the last reported VIN for a given month. The anomalies shown are shown for that very reason. It does happen and that should not be a basis for worry that your car may have had the body plate (trim tag) and/or VIN altered.

If you have trim tags/VINs plates with dates and sequence numbers that don't fall into the range of those shown below, please email me the trim tag and sequence number and I'll post the oddity. Email it to me at