Among the pieces of information in a Sloan report is "Invoice Amount." Does anyone know invoice amounts for 1972 GS base and options? Or, were Label prices fixed percentages over Invoice? Being unable to find Destination charge for my Honolulu GS, thought I might try to reverse engineer it by searching Sloan records for early '72 (pre 12/12/71, prices same as '71) Flint GS/Skylark, and subtracting individual invoice prices for base/options from Invoice Amount... remainder should be Destination charge.
Not sure if it would be that straight forward. My price listings show several different costs associated with a single car or option cost: Dealer Invoice Hold Back Dealer price List Price Factory D&H MFGR Suggested Dealer N.V.P.C MFGR suggested Retail Price (Label)- this is what is shown on a window sticker The base cost for a 70 GS as an example Dealer Invoice = 2419.83 Hold Back = 61.46 Dealer Price = 2467.27 List Price = 3249.00 Factory D&H = 180.00 MFGR Suggested Dealer N.V.P.C = 30.00 MFGR Suggested Retail Price (Label) = 3283.00 The destination charge "may" not be included in the invoice price.
You got me curious so I took a low optioned GS Sloan report and ran the numbers Invoice cost on sloan docs = $3361.82 I used the "Dealer Invoice" costs for the car and all of the options = 3025.61 Subtract 3361.82 - 3025.61 = 336.21 The 336.21 is way to high to be the destination charge I also tried the other price options and nothing worked out , the "Dealer Cost" = $2987.67 This may have saved you some time on using the invoice price to figure out the destination charge.
I have got the original involce for A 72 skylark. I think it shows base price, and all the option prices.I don't know if it would help you ,my car being A skylark. I could post A picture of it ,if you want.
I know about Invoice, Hold Back, etc., but from the meager option info I have, there's a fixed relationship between some of those numbers. Dealer Price + Hold-Back = Invoice. List + D & H = Sticker. In my example, List was 22% over Invoice and 24% over Dealer Price, which implies Hold-Back is 2% (for options, I don't expect it to hold true for base price, and may not even be consistent among options). In my example, Dealer Price lowest, then Invoice, List, and Sticker. D & H is least consistent, but always at barely over 5%. This was not an exhaustive analysis...I don't have enough examples for that. As for what's on invoice, SCOs should be, but wouldn't show up under Options on Sloan report, based on how options listed.
First, thanks for doing this. That's a big disparity. Obviously, there's something I'm not understanding about Dealer Invoicing...anyone know more about this?
