1975 Door DOT/VIN Sticker - Was CA different? |
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1975 Door DOT/VIN Sticker - Was CA different? |
DaveB |
Mar 11 2022, 10:29 PM
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drem914 |
Mar 12 2022, 10:53 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,033 Joined: 16-May 08 From: Trabuco Canyon, CA Member No.: 9,062 Region Association: Southern California |
Here is my 49 state, Chicago Ohare entry '75. Original and untouched.
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DaveB |
Mar 13 2022, 01:24 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 165 Joined: 25-November 21 From: Portland, Oregon Member No.: 26,107 Region Association: Pacific Northwest |
Here is my 49 state, Chicago Ohare entry '75. Original and untouched. Well this is odd. One month before my car was produced, they were using a different sticker style. I wonder if they wanted to use up what they had in-house and then started the new sticker in the 02/75 lots. But - the other example that matches mine is a California car. Could they have applied these to CA cars only in 75 and it was the indicator for a catalytic converter equipped car? Based on what @JeffBowlsby was writing, with my car being Ancona blue, the sticker should have been silver like yours. But mine is black. It is almost like they just used whatever was available. DaveB |
wonkipop |
Mar 13 2022, 02:01 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 4,403 Joined: 6-May 20 From: north antarctica Member No.: 24,231 Region Association: NineFourteenerVille |
Here is my 49 state, Chicago Ohare entry '75. Original and untouched. Well this is odd. One month before my car was produced, they were using a different sticker style. I wonder if they wanted to use up what they had in-house and then started the new sticker in the 02/75 lots. But - the other example that matches mine is a California car. Could they have applied these to CA cars only in 75 and it was the indicator for a catalytic converter equipped car? Based on what @JeffBowlsby was writing, with my car being Ancona blue, the sticker should have been silver like yours. But mine is black. It is almost like they just used whatever was available. DaveB they were post war germans mate. even in 1975. never waste anything? do the change when the old ones are used up? my business partner is of german descent. his father grew up as a young boy right after the war in germany. i love listening to the stories his old man tells. and some of them are not such great stories. like crashed plane wrecks with skeletons still in them. they threw nothing out those people. they would have used up all their stickers? as to being contrasting colors with body color. maybe. you would have to stack up a whole lot of consecutive cars together to ever know what the pattern was. the point is you face the quandry of all trying to get originality. and the answer is it cannot be recreated it can only be preserved. i would keep your original sticker in situ if you want originality. its there with all the passing of time and its effects. or just accept that a renovation is a renovation and a recreation. which is ok too. but a different thing. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif) |
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