San Jose Build Sheets

From what I've heard from the Shelby crowd, the build sheets were removed from the San Jose cars before they left the factory. Don't know why every factory had a different policy.

Z. Ray

Hi,

Hope you guys had a nice thanksgiving.

I found San Jose paperwork under the back seat

of my 67 Shelby when I bought it in 1977.

/Bo

The reason (from my observations) for the lack of buildsheets in most of the San Jose cars comes down to the reason for printing the buildsheets in the first place (general statement for all years there.

From my understanding there were many copies of each buildsheet produced for each car. The copies were sent to the areas of the plant (for the interior and drivetrain part of the assembly process). Build sheets were designed to guide the second half of the assembly.

At the subassemble points parts were combined or located then sent to the line to meet up with the car they were for. At the other plants the copy of the build sheet was often attached to the part or subassembly but at San Jose it seems that instead the rotation number from the buildsheet was written on most of the part or assembly to identify the specific car, then buildsheets were thrown away instead.

In addition, so that the parts made it to the right car) the cars second rotation number was written on the front and the rear of the car so workers could easily identify the car.

In later years we see a combination of rotation numbers and buildsheets used at the other two plants but not to the extent I've seen San Jose.

As for early Shelbys, since they were build in groups under a special order number and with the use of add/delete sheets that identified the changes and parts for the group of cars so IMHO it is unlikely that individual buildsheets were printed for each car.

In 67 it has not been uncommon for an owner of a 67 Shelby to find a copy of the Add/Delete sheet under the carpet of their car.

I have a few copies of 67 San Jose buildsheets but generally these are from odd cars rather than regular production cars.

Having spent 30+ years in and under thousands of cars I can say that San Jose buildsheets are a rare find but they did use and sometimes toss one in a car every so often

Hope this helps

There's a copy of a San Jose Build Sheet (worn from age) on page 171 of Tonys book, 4th Edition...