Unknown Find Under the Carpet. Whatsit?

[RallyeMike]

I found this taped to the trans tunnel in my 69 Charger. I've never seen one before. Anyone know what it is or its purpose?
It reads kind of like a mini build sheet, but appears to be blank in the boxes.

[6bblgt]

it appears to be an IBM "punch" card - 12 rows & 70 columns *** I don't think I've seen one from 1969

here's a 1971 version (several versions were used each year & for various purposes) inspection / quality control / build

some have build & OPTION codes, some have zone & dealer codes

[RallyeMike]

Thanks. I was unaware of those.

Looking a little closer, the reason it may be blank and not punched is that I think the back of it was used for some kind of note. On the back it has something undecipherable written in black marker and the tape indicates that it was taped to the trans hump face down (with the undecipherable message facing up and toward the drivers side window).

Probably a mystery never to be solved.

[hemigeno]

It's hard to see from the posted photo, but in the middle of that card it appears that there are three-digit codes.  Is that a left-over from 1968?  Perhaps an early-built 1969 model where someone at the plant still had '68 paperwork around as scratchpad material?

[RallyeMike]

Yes they are three digit codes in the boxes. Much of it is hard to read.... it's not just the photo. The car was built Dec 4 1968.

[Tuco]

While working on a customers 57 Edsel I found the sports page from a 1957 newspaper.  Perfectly preserved under the sound deader under the carpet.  Some line worker probably reading it on his break and left it there.

[Nacho-RT74]

Well, at least it wasn't a Playboy mag... or maybe a shame? LOL

[ODZKing]

Yes, I have a copy of my punch card I got from Chrysler historical way back in 05. Not sure if they are still doing that but you can try to contact them. I believe it is only up to 1968 though. Most records were destroyed by fire as I understand it. Can't hurt to write.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjtoIbpldTzAhXkhXIEHf28AlMQFnoECAoQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.chryslerclub.org%2FPDF%2520files%2FChrysler_Historical_Build_Record_Request.pdf&usg=AOvVaw2C7ihwFMBqZMsPnHwhklMR

[GMP440]

  Is this car from the St. Louis plant?

[Homerr]

Would either the card, or the note written on the back, be something specific to the 1969 Charger 500?  Something for Creative Industries?

[hemigeno]

Would either the card, or the note written on the back, be something specific to the 1969 Charger 500?  Something for Creative Industries?

I'm guessing no message for Creative - since CI would have had no reason to pull up the front carpet.  It's hard to say if Hamtramck had some C500-related reason to put a note there, especially since there's not much difference in the interiors (pre-conversion).

We could send the message off to DC.com's in-house CSI Laboratory only to find out that it says "Bowling League Tonight".

[JimShine]

Not sure if it belongs to your car, or if it simply made its way in (blew in, stuck to an employees shoe, etc). I have a November 1968 Hamtramck production control flow chart that shows that one operations IBM cards used in production, and I am shocked we do not see more of this trash in our cars. There were IBM cards for every stage of production, and more cards attached by other facilities for each large part and major assembly. Keeping cards cleaned up off the work area must have been a job in itself.

[ODZKing]

Not sure if it belongs to your car, or if it simply made its way in (blew in, stuck to an employees shoe, etc). I have a November 1968 Hamtramck production control flow chart that shows that one operations IBM cards used in production, and I am shocked we do not see more of this trash in our cars. There were IBM cards for every stage of production, and more cards attached by other facilities for each large part and major assembly. Keeping cards cleaned up off the work area must have been a job in itself.

I may have mentioned this before. I know a fellow who has a 1968 Coronet 4 door who found a coffee cup under the carpet. It had a Chrysler Corp logo on it, prolly from the break room.
One scenario could be he brought it to the line and the supervisor said hey, get to work. And he tossed it on the floor before the carpet went in. I should have taken a pic of it. Anyway, lots of stuff in these cars over the years. I've heard of wrenches in the doors, bolts etc.

[cp-chargr/6]

... and whiskey bottles below the passenger's side quarter panel window ... (MOPAR Collector's Guide, No. 246 (September 2008), pg 150-154). I guess everybody had their own morning fix (or for whatever shift the car was built), and everybody had a different way to deal with it when the shift supervisor came around.