whats a..

[dukeboy_318]

sales bank car??, got a fender tag that decoded y16 as a sales bank car?? car is a 74 charger SE(with buildsheet hehe)

[tan top]

cars that were built  to fill up a dealers inventory ,  stock i believe     ...............

[Ghoste]

Not so much dealers inventory but more accurately corporate inventory.  It's extremely NOT cost effective to start and stop assembly lines based on daily order requirements.  It's much smoother and more efficient to try and predict the number of cars that can be moved in a year and keep the lines running at the same steady pace all year.  Naturally this results in the dreaded "excess capacity" we read about all the time.  If everything works out, these excess units go into a sales bank (which isn't really one location but rather many spots all over the continent) and they are held there until dealers call looking for stock to fill the lot or specials are run to clear a bunch out or what have you.  Sometimes things don't work out so well and there can be a lot of unsold cars sitting around come year end.
Go into any city with an auto plant and sooner or later you're bound to see huge parking lots filled with new vehicles.  These are your sales banks.

[dukeboy_318]

oh okay, thanks guys

[terrible one]

Interesting Ghoste, as I did not know this. 

[tan top]

            good info (Ghoste)     

[hemihead]

Not so much dealers inventory but more accurately corporate inventory.  It's extremely NOT cost effective to start and stop assembly lines based on daily order requirements.  It's much smoother and more efficient to try and predict the number of cars that can be moved in a year and keep the lines running at the same steady pace all year.  Naturally this results in the dreaded "excess capacity" we read about all the time.  If everything works out, these excess units go into a sales bank (which isn't really one location but rather many spots all over the continent) and they are held there until dealers call looking for stock to fill the lot or specials are run to clear a bunch out or what have you.  Sometimes things don't work out so well and there can be a lot of unsold cars sitting around come year end.
Go into any city with an auto plant and sooner or later you're bound to see huge parking lots filled with new vehicles.  These are your sales banks.

Couldn't of said it better myself   

[Tilar]

I couldn't have said it at all, I had no idea what it was 

But I can't say that anymore