Help on a black 1968 Coronet RT gold interior SO#77

I will post the bigger pics below. I can not get anyone that really has an idea for sure what the 7 series SO# really stands for as there are only two other cars in the registry that have that starting so # one a gtx and one a satalite vert. So if anyone knows what it is or has ideas let me know. this car was not marked as a dealer promo or executive car on the bs. Thanks again

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Hello,
is that your car's tag? it is a 7 so# too. I have the name of the individual that runs a registry on 68 b body st louis only cars. I can give you his email if you would like to contact him. It was Sacoman dodge here in OMaha

Wheel Cover #2881 764

thanks again to everyone that has helped me decode this car as there is definetly something different about it with that SO# starting with 7 and then the high amount of options it had and how it was not delivered until after 120 days after the build. But nobody can tell for sure in 68 what all those oddities acutally mean. Well now to add a little more to it.

I finally got a chance today to unload the car and inspect it better when I rolled it into our storage shed. I forgot my camera or I would have shot pics for you guys to see and it is an hour and a half away so it might be a while before I get back up with the camera. But long story short this car's unibody was completly green! You would never have know it looking at the car but when you take off the doors and fenders there were the tell tail areas with green under where they had repainted the car. If you looked up the rear of the trunk under the package tray and crossbars it was still green there too! The bottom part of the trunk was correct with the wheelwells in black and pan in black but anything up high they just skipped. The fenders, doors, hood and trunk deck did not show any green at all. The car was obviously reshot at the factory in black and they did it once the doors, fenders and hood were on the car. It is an original paint car and you can clearly see that with it torn apart so this is an example of a car being reshot another color before leaving the factory.

I was wondering if the odd SO# might have something to do with this as I wonder if chrysler wanted a black exec or promo car and just pulled a green unibody and reshot it black?? The buildsheet and tag obviously say bb1 black. Does anyone else have ANY input on this as something is odd on this car and would love to try and figure it out as I have had alot of people say that 7 means something but in 68 with the odd buildsheets and codes that year no body can pin it down. Also wanted to say a special thanks to Dan who decoded this for me and did the original cost of the car and this thing was actually just under $4300 window sticker new! That was alot more than a hemi coronet rt so it was a highly optioned car.

a rebody seems more plausable to me
then the factory changing colors midstream.......
how do you know it is a orig paint car?
did you put a paint gauge on it?

It is not a rebody as the factory welds are in place up front and the #'s match on body. This car is about as unmolested as I have seen and you can tell by looking at the body panels taken apart it is an original paint car. There are no other layers of paint on the car except black and then on the unibody black covering the green and under the door hinges all their is is green and you can see where the black was cut in around the hinges but not under the hinges.

I have heard several where several workers said cars were reshot alot at the St Louis plant and one of the most common colors was green so it makes sense a unibody was pulled after being shot green and then changed to a not so common color like black. I was wondering if this might have triggered the 7 in the SO# or if that order was in place and they just grabbed what ever shell was on the assembly line and pulled it off to reshot in the odd color combo this car was ordered as?

the only real way to determine orig paint is by a thickness gauge,not by looks..
a few so called survivors have been outed in that manner

before you convince me of that far out factory explanation,
strip some paint away in places
and see how tough the paint strips away and whats underneath it....
i can change a front support out myself
and i bet you would never know it was done unless you were told or you stripped all the paint away...

if it pans out,
that car will be a weird story if it is a factory thing
and it isn't a show/promo car
it doesn't make much sense because if the color was wrong just swap it out with another car on the line?
then cover it all up

Not trying to be rude but can you tell me what the 7 in the so# means then? It should be a 1,2, or 3. Not a 7.

The only paint between the doors, hinges & jambs would be the various stages of "dip seal" which is often - you guessed it - GREEN. There was no stock pile of painted bodies looking for an identity, as that body was assembled it was done to instructions to build Shipping Order #772811. '68 Coronets were painted with the complete body assembled.

This Coronet R/T's complete identity was attached to #772811 before it was VIN sequence #169291.

WAG
I could see a plant manager, exec., or other making "handshake" arrangements for special handling (non-standard rust treatments etc.?) while their next car was going down the line, but doesn't make too much sense for a car they would be in possesion of for 120 days (unless you find Mr. McCartney worked for Chrysler?). Maybe they had special procedures for "Company Cars"?

Dealership rental car?

Driver's Education car?

It may have been used by the dealership for a while before it was sold.