I sold the car in 1975 and got a new Chevelle SS350. Click on the part of the trim plate you need to decode and you will jump to that section.
I have never seen another Elky like this. It is known that in 1968 Kansas City coded all trim tag style numbers with an even 3rd digit so the Fisher Body Style number is not a valid resource to tell if the car was a V8 or L6. The trim tag is riveted to the firewall above the master cylinder. This SS had it because this car was a dealer demo that a salesman had ordered but it sold to me before he even had a chance drive it with the decal on. Kansas City was the only 1968 assembly plant to continue to us -A- and -B- for bench and bucket seat designation.
Here is my new 1972 SS 350 in the same color scheme.the flame is just a clear decal that was a GM dealer installed accessory. 1968 Trim Tag Decoding Interior Trim Codes The interior trim color code is a 3-digit number. They were placed on the tag in the body shop so they could be used to ID the body since the assembly plant (Baltimore in this case) was a GMAD plant that built more than just Chevrolet's, they assembled other similar GM makes and if they did not sequence every body correctly there would have been Chevelle chassis onto which they would be trying to fit GTO bodies etc. The most common method of decoding the VIN is the following. The letters and numbers refer back to the broadcast copy (build sheet) and were part of larger number called the Data Processing Sequence Number. Includes Wagons, El Camino and Monte Carlo Models Dale McIntosh.
Accessory codes reappear with a different format in 1970 on various cars.
These codes will not appear on 1968-and-later plates. They were just used in the plant to process the body when it came time for final assembly. The following types of equipment have been listed on data plates that have been decoded: tinted glass, transmission, console, air conditioning, radio, mirrors, rear defroster, seat belts, and bumper guards. The B and 0435 don't refer to anything about the car. It is known that in 1968 Kansas City coded all trim tag style numbers with an even 3rd digit so the Fisher Body Style number is not a valid resource to tell if.