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N100023,  “The #3 Magazine Test Photo Car”, was delivered on June 3, 1966 from Fisher Body as coach #DD31D.  Like all F-Body Pilot Prototypes at Norwood, it started its hand built assembly in consecutive VIN number order as the twenty-third build of the engineering study.  One of eleven on Fleet and Special Order # 5-11 made by Sales Mechanical Exhibit, it carried model # 12637.  This yellow on black coupe was the sixteenth coupe ever built and the “Third Magazine & Newspaper Test Photo Car”.  With a 350 cubic inch power plant and a standard 4-speed transmission, its extensive use as a press tool was exhaustive.  The “Magazine Test Photo Cars” were on elevated display for ease of photography in the same program as the “Ride & Drive Cars”.   It was required to be received by J. MacQuaid at Chevrolet Flint Manufacturing on or around June 20, 1966 for display use.  Like all of the eleven builds for the mechanical exhibit it was built “Omit Undercoat” for ease and desirability of publicity photos.  NCRS certificates show #23 being returned to corporate, Zone 0 and it is thought to have been used as a company promotional vehicle shortly thereafter.   Extensive and exhaustive history searches have gleaned no documented ownership history.  Current whereabouts and existence is unknown as of 3-1-2015.

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Title History Research N100023

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Press Release About Pilot Prototype N100023

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