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Post by Lord Vadus on Mar 21, 2012 13:06:25 GMT -5
Ok, it's not a Dodge tag, but a Chevy one I just restored. I'm thinking of doing this to my Monacos, too, because I like the effect that it creates and it makes reading the information in pictures very easy. Before: After: The clear-coat has yet to be applied, but it's a neat idea for all cars with a build tag.
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Post by tk826 on Mar 21, 2012 14:37:34 GMT -5
Did you paint it white first, or is that the raw metal underneath?
(Since you used the word clear-coat, I'm guessing it is the metal?)
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Post by Lord Vadus on Mar 21, 2012 20:29:07 GMT -5
It's the raw metal. I painted it gloss black, sanded the paint off of the letters and numbers, then applied two coats of clear. Its more durable, has a nice effect, and can easily be done easier than painting around white letters.
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Post by Lord Vadus on Mar 23, 2012 20:19:02 GMT -5
And here's the tag from that '75 I've mentioned:
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Post by sigmfsk on Mar 31, 2012 20:02:47 GMT -5
And here's the tag from that '75 I've mentioned: ... Thanks, LV. I added the info and fender tag pic to the first post.
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Post by spanks79 on May 11, 2012 14:30:31 GMT -5
Here is the info on my 74 I got from Joseph Blues in North Carolina no hump flat fender brace
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Post by sigmfsk on May 15, 2012 10:39:36 GMT -5
Here is the info on my 74 I got from Joseph Blues in North Carolina Thanks, Spanks. I added it to the table. This car was built the day after Chitown John's was built. I believe the serial numbers are across all of Mopar. It looks like they built 700 cars between your two.
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Post by tk826 on May 15, 2012 13:19:28 GMT -5
After re-reading this thread, I realized that I had forgotten about Steam McQueen's question regarding the listing of the "E86" HP as being a typo. (Post #12) I did a little more searching and found that it is/was in fact a typo. It appears that the 375hp E86 only pertains to cars in the late 1960's to very early 1970's. Info here: www.genocide2600.com/~traviso/mml/bodydecode.html www.mopar1.us/6971codes.htmlHe is correct in stating that the 1976 "E86" equals 255 hp. * (I have corrected the previous post)
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Post by sigmfsk on May 18, 2012 14:52:03 GMT -5
Here: bluesmobiles.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=gotopost&board=owners&thread=727&post=4604SD referenced some new pics of his car, including this one: It clearly has a "63" stamped onto the upper portion. And now that I look more carefully at our other fender tags, I see some of them are stamped also (or maybe all are stamped, but only some are easy to see). Anybody know what those stamps mean? your friend in codes, codes, and more codes, arthur
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Post by sigmfsk on Nov 20, 2012 18:41:43 GMT -5
Added Lord Vadus' 1975 green brougham hardtop info to the table. I need to add Spanks' and SD's info.
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Post by sigmfsk on Nov 22, 2012 6:38:01 GMT -5
Spanks' info was already in the table. I added SD's, which I think gets us up-to-date. Until now, when sorting the tags by sequence number, they were also all sorted by build date. But now: 1974 148855 12/05/73 Chitown's blumo 1974 149528 12/06/73 Joseph Blues' foundation 1974 151245 11/27/73 SD's blue Notice that SD's has a later sequence number than Chitown's and Spanks' Joseph Blues', but an earlier build date. Here are pics of the 3 tags, in the order above: I found this page on fender tags: maxwedge.com/articles/documenting.php> 721 is the car's "birthday", or Scheduled Production Date. 721=July 21, > 1973. The months are counted 1 through 9 (Jan to Sep) and A through > C (Oct to Dec). Note that the Scheduled Production Date (SPD) is not > necessarily the actual day the car was assembled. It was simply > released for production on that day. It may actually have been > assembled some time later. which provides some loosey-gooseyness to the system. And then > 374650 is the sequential car number. Sequential numbers start at > 100001 (the first car down that assembly line at the beginning of that > model year). So if we want to sort the cars by the date they left the factory, it looks like we want to sort them by sequence number (under the assessment that the earlier a car got sent down the assembly line, most likely the earlier it left the factory). And the "released-for-production birthday" ordering is highly correlative with the sequence number ordering, but has some wiggle room. your friend in info ordering, arthur
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Post by sigmfsk on Nov 25, 2012 5:25:02 GMT -5
Added info on bagman's blumo he sold on e-bay
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Post by sigmfsk on Dec 15, 2012 7:34:49 GMT -5
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Post by scatpack on Jun 10, 2013 11:43:50 GMT -5
I'll get some pics of my fender tag and post it later today.
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Post by scatpack on Jun 10, 2013 15:49:43 GMT -5
here is my car
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