These are not so easy... There is no 4V in the lower left corner, but they came from true 65 442's.
The Magic Mirror script was on the bottom was on all Fremont, Ca. data plates.
Note: It appears that all Fremont, Ca. cars have the 3rd hole at the upper right corner of the data plate. Some are round and others are diamond shaped, but I haven't found the significance.
The 3rd letter in the paint code is the color of the steel wheels when equipped with "dog dish" hubcaps.
H: Body Mouldings, Body Side (thin aluminum strip, front to rear)
V: All 442 Items & Scoops Added (W-29 Trim Package)
C: Window Sill Molding
Y: Delux Simulated Steering Wheel
July 3st week
1965 Cutlass V8 Holiday Coupe
Lansing Michigan
Production Seq. 30466
Blue Bucket Seats / int
C-C: Provincial White Lower & Upper Body
W: Tinted Windshield Only
X: Power Window Harness, Power Window Conduit Holes in Door Jamb-Door
T: Power Drivers Seat
S: Power Trunk Release
K: Firewall Piercing, Car Air Conditioning
F: Remote Outside Mirror
This car has :POWER BRAKES, POWER STEERING, REAR WINDOW DEFROSTER POWER DRIVERS BUCKET SEAT
This car is equiped power steering only
July 5th week
1965 Cutlass V8 Sport Coupe Fremont California.
Production Seq. 4703
940: Black Bucket Seats
10: Dealer Sales Code For The Interior
JJ J: Forrest Green Lower & Upper Body & Wheels
Acc. "20460" Factory Broadcast Card No.
When equipped with "Dog Dish Hubcaps" the 3rd letter in the paint code matches body color
Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
Column 4 Column 5
Column1 is the only one NOT preceeded by a number.
Most cars do not have all 5 columns, unless it was heavily optioned.
The Trim Code Line - "TR 303-43 has the same first 3 numbers as the Lansing plate which indicate the interior color and type of material. The second 2 numbers indicate the dealer interior code, which is the same as the above trim code.
The ACC Code Line - lists some options, not all, and are not found on all Fremont cars . -
The number 15925 indicates the total number of Oldsmobiles (all models) built at the Fremont Plant and refers to the "Broadcast Card" number which was used on the Fremont assembly line and listed all the options to be added to the car. The Broadcast Card No. can be found on the buildsheet in the. "Manifest Sequence No. space in the upper left hand corner.
Fremont California 65 442 Post "Buildsheet" Click To Enlarge
July 4th week
1965 Cutlass V8 Holiday Coupe Fremont California.
Production Seq. 10583
955: Red Bucket Seats
15: Dealer Sales Code For The Interior
RR: Target Red Lower & Upper Body
Acc. "37037" Factory Broadcast Card No.
442
NOTICE the "diamond" shaped hole punched in the upper right where all the others have a round hole.(NO IDEA)
June 2nd week
1965 Cutlass V8 Holiday Coupe
Lansing Michigan
Production Seq. 26573
955-B: Fawn Bucket Seats / int
V-V: Almond Beige Lower & Upper Body
W: Tinted Windshield (only)
D: Door Edge Guards
H: Body Mouldings, Body Side (thin aluminum strip, front to rear)
V: All 442 Items & Scoops Added (W-29 Trim Package)
C: Window Sill Molding
O: Seat Belt Delete (Export Models)
Please help with any unlisted codes that you can confirm
July 5th week
1965 F-85 Standard Club Coupe (Post)
Lansing Michigan
Production Seq. 10658
911-B: Sterling Cloth Bench Seats / int
B-B: Nocturn Mist Lower & Upper Body
A: Extra Foam Padding, Front Seat
L: Hole & Plate in floor for 4 Speed
D: Door Edge Chrome
H: Body Mouldings, Body Side (thin aluminum strip, front to rear)
V: All 442 Items & Scoops Added (W-29 Trim Package)
M: Undetermined
W: Delux Front Seat Belt with retractors
This is the "Plain Jane" (short hood chrome and 2 bars and an emblem on the back,
GM built cars at the Fremont CA plant from 1960 to 1980. In that time many cars from Olds, Buick, Chevorlet and Pontiac rolled off the assembly line. While GM had home plants for all their makes, Oldsmobiles being in Lansing, Fremont built them all under one roof. They did things very differently there. The big difference was the Cowl Tag. Since Fremont had all these cars being built on the same line the coding that they used was totally different from Lansings. Codes in Lansing could not be used in Fremont because they could mean something totally different on a GTO or Skylark.
Here is a Lansing built 442 cowl tag. Here is a Fremont CA built 442
The most noticable difference is the shape of the tags. Fremont didnt go to the Lansing style tag until 1966. You can see that Lansing used the code system to let the workers know what to do to the car when they got it. Every option that required a modification to the body was noted on the tag. Since the 442 side scoops needed 5 holes in the quarter panel to mount them, 4V was stamped on the tag so they knew to do that.
Fremont used a tracking system based on broadcast cards. One of the big mysteries is what the ACC. ##### means on the cowl tags. The example above has ACC. 23667 stamped on it. This number matched the broadcast cards used to build the car. That ACC code was an in-plant serial number used to keep track of the car.. If a card was lost or the worker didnt know how the car was supposed to be built he could get the number off the tag and look up what it was. This number will show up in the Manifest Seq. Num. box on the build sheet.
All 4 makes of cars had these ACC numbers. The above is from a 65 Chevelle. From what I have seen the ACC numbers increased as the year passed. So the later the car the higher the number, for the most part. Some cars may have been stamped but built at a later date, so they dont follow numerically. The numbers also started over if they ran out of 5 number places. The above tag from June of 65 is an example of this. So far I have not seen a 65 442 or Cutlass that has a ACC number thats "rolled over". Fremont tags were not painted, so you can conclude that they were riveted in place after the car was built.
What does all that mean to us? Not a damn thing. Those ACC numbers didnt matter once the car left the Fremont plant grounds. Therefore the buildsheet is the only document that can prove your car is a true 442. But if you have read the "Is It A Clone" page you already know what to look for.
The second place that the Fremont tags are different from the Lansing tags are the interior trim codes, TR on the tag. The first 3 numbers are the same, they are the codes for the vinyl colors. The next number, on this tag 10, is the metal surface color. The dash and A pillar colors specifically. Lansing used letters for their color codes, like B would be black. Fremont used numbers, unfortunately I cant find a list of what they were. I know 10 was black, my car has it as does the one above. I have seen 15 too, which I believe was red.
The next Fremont only code is the wheel color code. Cars that used steel wheels and poverty caps got a third letter in the paint code. The plant used enamel paint instead of laquer to paint the wheels according to this code. Fremont used the third letter system until July 1965.
The last different feature was a hand stamped code that was hammered into the upper right corner of the tag. The most popular theory is the number stamped matched the body cradle number that brought the body shell from Fisher body to the assembly plant. If a problem was found with the body it could be tracked back to where it came from. The number on the above tag is 11. Now this isnt fact but its what the BPC owners agree to, having talked to guys that worked there back in the 1960s.
Thanks to Jasen Ramsey
December 1st week
1965 Cutlass Convertible
Lansing Michigan
Production Seq. 1841
950-B: Black Bucket Seats
C-1: Provincial White Lower & Black Cloth Top
L: Hole & Plate in floor for 4 Speed
V: All 442 Items & Scoops Added (W-29 Trim Package)
January 3nd week
1965 Cutlass Sport Coupe (Post)
Lansing Michigan
Production Seq. 8012
304-A: Fawn Cloth Bench Seats
T-V: Mohave Mist Lower Body & Almond Beige Upper Body
L: Undetermined
O: Two Tone Paint & Roof To Body Trim
K: Firewall Piercing, Car Air Conditioning
H: Body Mouldings, Body Side (thin aluminum strip, front to rear)
C: Window Sill Molding
W: Delux Front Seat Belt with retractors
Feb 3rd week
1965 F-85 Club Coupe (NOT 442)
Lansing Michigan
Production Seq. 4594
903: Blue Cloth Bench Seats / int
D-D: Lucerne Mist Low & Upr Body
NO OPTIONS SHOWN ( Very Rare )
FREMONT DATAPLATE EXAMPLES
LANSING DATAPLATE EXAMPLES
The above chart shows the Dealer Interior Code which appears after the three numbers in the Trim Code area. They both indicate the same thing.
1965 A-body Cipher Codes
Lansing, Michigan & Fremont, California Assembly Plants
