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Looks like it had some kind of square sign or something on the drivers door?
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Looks like there was something on the passenger door too.
Where's Dave H. the resident Olds guy ??
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Back by popular demand (all contributions, monetary and liquid) gratefully accepted)......
Wrote this for the Olds board. Some of them get upset when I post Olds stuff on V8Buick or here first....
<font color="purple">Chapter 23, VIN stamping
There are only 4 VIN numbers stamps on the Lansing built cars in that era: the two on the frame, and one each on the engine and trans.
The body only had the rivvetted on VIN plate and the blue sticker in the door jamb (can't remember which year we started that, 1970?) I was responsible for VIN stamping from 1968 to 1973 on the Olds assembly line in Lansing. The bodies weren't serialized from Fisher body. The body as received was treated like another purchased part. You can put that in your pipe and smoke it as far as rebodying cars. Should a person with a heart transplant go get a new social security number?
VIN number on the frame were rolled on with a large pneumatic fixture with numbered wheels that were indexed for each car sequentially. One at the front was rolled from front to rear and the one behind the rear axle was rolled from the rear to front. Operator indexed to the next sequential number with a lever. Only reason there were two was in case one was incomplete or illegible. Frames had hard and soft parts as well as weld spatter that interfered with the rolling process.
The stamps on the engine and trans were a hand held fixture that was smacked with a BFH. Numerals (and the M letter) were individual and manually inserted in the fixture.
I've known of 3 very rough 69 Hursts over the years. One was in Illinois (could be this one), another was sold here by a friend of mine and got "lost" in shipping, and the third was the one for sale at Norwalk a few years back. Only the one at Norwalk looked savable to me.
My guess is Mopars and Camaros had other stamps on the body because they were unibody or partial frame cars. These changed from year to year back then as big brother lawyers in Washungton began "helping" us design the cars with help from their lobbyist buddies, of course. </font>