L695speed

This came up on the early third gen forums. A trim tag from a 1984 Norwood Trans Am has "BOT" on the body options line. I did a search here and the only time that came up was five years ago on a 15th anniversary car. Back then no one had any idea what it was.

Dens71TA over there said he doesn't see it on his Van Nuys cars. So does any one have any idea what BOT is?

SolarGoldRaptor

Here's the body tag L695Speed is talking about (it's on my car) :

L695speed

I've been meaning to post a picture of it, just never got around to it. As I said it seems to be on other cars as well. Specifically the ones from Norwood. This is where I wish mine was still on the car as my car is also a Norwood car.

scottmoyer

Just so you guys know, that is B 0 (zero) T

L695speed

oh ok. Thanks for clarifying that now does anyone know exactly what it means?

wildjeff

iTrader: (1)

At first I was going to disagree with you because of the shape of the 0. its more rounded then the other 0. but after looking at it it may just be another font. Did GM use the letter o in any RPOs?

oh and I don't know what B0T means. but I'd be very interested to find out.

firebirdta84

iTrader: (3)

Hmm...very interesting. My 84 Norwood Trans Am doesn't have the BOT on the tag.

Joe

L695speed

well that establishes the fact that not all cars from Norwood had it. Perhaps cars from Van Nuys had it as well. I was unable to establish anything further because my car is missing the radiator support tag. Now that there is the possibility that it was on California built cars as well, perhaps we can figure out what it means.

Dens71TA

iTrader: (5)

I wonder if it means "BODY ON TRIM".

firebirdta84, does your car have the B97 wheel flares or W62 aero ground effects package? I'm thinking it might have something to do with the W62.

wildjeff

iTrader: (1)

I looked through the pics of cowl tags I have. one Norwood T/A had what looked like BOT but I'm not sure (pic was a little fuzzy) one Van Nuys S/E did not have it and one Van Nuys Firebird did not have it either.