I would be cautious about claiming a dealer invoice is better than a tank sticker...perhaps early buildsheets from 1967-72 but when you get a buildsheet from 1973-82...it contains codes that when reconciling with installed parts...confirm originality and a matching numbers C3!  Below are listed three factors that differentiate a dealer invoice from a late model C3 buildsheet or what I refer to as the GMAD manifest.

1. Mendoza's posted buildsheet of a 1982 is an excellent example, I can take that document, trace broadcast codes back to what's installed on his vehicle and learn whether what's on the car is original to that car.
2. The dealer invoice is no more than a printed data set derived from production and sales documents. The report calls out installed buyer options and their costs.
3. A buildsheet will call out all RPOs including merchandising RPOs that call out sub-RPOs. Again Mendoza document set illustrate the RPOs printed on the invoice versus those on the buildsheet. You'll find RPOs on the buildsheet that are not printed on the dealer invoice...the buildsheet includes all RPOs while the dealer invoice is limited to those the buyer selected as options.

I'm sure someone has posted this info before but you can get Dealer Invoices from GM Archives for 1977 and later Chevrolets at the following website.

Thats  great advice! What i like about my car is that i have the actual paperwork the previous owner had from the transaction. While the car is not the prettiest out there, it has every bit of documentation to prove its mileage and its ownership history. The previous owner was a relative and i can say first hand it has had no accidents or serious issues its whole life. its only recently had the engine rebuilt professionally, using its original block.

Does anyone have any advice how to list a vette like this? Im definitely ready to let it go to a good home.

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I have every scrap of documentation that ever came with my car because I am the original owner.  I have a letter dated August 1979 from the salesman informing me that the 1980 Vettes were ready to be ordered.  (I even have his business card.)  The only 'problem' is that - other than personal satisfaction - all that documentation won't get me anything.  That's because I am giving my Vette to my oldest granddaughter when I'm gone. (And I wouldn't have it any other way. )