65Camino wrote:

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How can the factory be a dealer ?

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 I will stand corrected but my understanding was that a car could be picked up by the new owner right at the factory. Alternatively, maybe a GM staff/employee car.

65Camino wrote:

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How can the factory be a dealer ?

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 That's a company car in my opinion. These big engine well optioned cars are often ordered by staff for head office or personal use.  

dcneric wrote:

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65Camino wrote:

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How can the factory be a dealer ?

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 I will stand corrected but my understanding was that a car could be picked up by the new owner right at the factory. Alternatively, maybe a GM staff/employee car.

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 Hi... Think you are grasping at straws. I've never heard of a Canadian car delivered "to the factory". If and I repeat IF, it was delivered to the factory it would have a different "dealer code". I t MAY have been delivered to Oshawa Motor sales, they were the BIG GM dealer in town with connections to Oshawa head office

4SPEED427 wrote:

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I'm not sure if this is what the discussion is about exactly but there used to be an option code for something that I believe was called "Oshawa Delivery" where the customer picked his car up at the factory. It was still in effect into the 80's at least but I don't think much past that. So that GM document may or may show a dealer code.

The other thing was as mentioned, the GM Zone offices got cars for their staff and I believe in the line on the document where it would have the dealer code it said "GM Zone Office" or maybe it was "GM Product Stock". I know I've seen copies of those documents but can't recall the wording. I owned one of those cars, a 69 Grande Parisenne 427 4 door hardtop that was loaded but that was in the 80's and I never got any GM documents for it. The only reason I know it was a GM Zone car is my boss at the GM dealership here in our small town bought it from the Winnipeg Zone after the zone manager had miled it out.

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 Yes, that is correct for the "Gm zone office" delivery. I have a bunch of the dealer codes and zone codes in my Vette  notes... somewhere. If I recall correctly, most Canadian codes started with a 9, followed by two other numbers.

4SPEED427 wrote:

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I'm not sure if this is what the discussion is about exactly but there used to be an option code for something that I believe was called "Oshawa Delivery" where the customer picked his car up at the factory. It was still in effect into the 80's at least but I don't think much past that. So that GM document may or may show a dealer code.

The other thing was as mentioned, the GM Zone offices got cars for their staff and I believe in the line on the document where it would have the dealer code it said "GM Zone Office" or maybe it was "GM Product Stock". I know I've seen copies of those documents but can't recall the wording. I owned one of those cars, a 69 Grande Parisenne 427 4 door hardtop that was loaded but that was in the 80's and I never got any GM documents for it. The only reason I know it was a GM Zone car is my boss at the GM dealership here in our small town bought it from the Winnipeg Zone after the zone manager had miled it out.

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When I saw "GM Products" as the dealer, my first thought was that it was a special order car by product planning or the marketing dept., to be used in advertising or perhaps as an auto show display car.  However, the June 1969 production/delivery dates would be the wrong timing for those things, so a zone or executive company car is the more likely explanation.

I have also heard stories whereby people could follow their car down the line to watch it being built, and finally pick it up at the factory, but I don't know whether this happened at Oshawa or not.