ZZ code on 1969 Camaro Z/28 trim tag

[MosportGreen66]

Its an added JL-8 car too.
"The car was fitted with a very expensive JL8 brake package"

Interesting color... Endura bumper looks good! Vinyl top -- Killer on a maroon car!

No mention of documentation (that I can see) and with all the added options (X-ram, headers, flowmaster, JL-8) how do we know which factory appearing options are original to the car or restoration add ons?

The other thing I do not understand. Why are some engine parts dated late 69 (12/18/69) and others dated 1968? Typo??

[DarrenX33]

Mark, if it is stamped from behind then the letter "ZZ" is backwards? What sense would this make? Not really a letter then.. Just curious. Unless the stamp from behind was meant to be seen from the front of the tag.

[Mark_C]

Wouldn't be anymore backwards than all the other characters on the tag, as they are all stamped from behind. They were stamped into the back of the tag, meaning they are raised up on the front, just like all the other characters except the letters are a different size.

[DarrenX33]

God that's twice today. I better sit back and watch for the rest of the day. Sorry Mark.

[Kurt S]

Darren,
That is a good point. That means it wasn't stamped by standard stamps or it would be backwards.

[Mark_C]

If you have a metal tag designed to be read from the front and you are making an impression in it from the rear using a digit or character, you are making an exact copy of that digit or character. So all the characters in the tag machine are normal, think of the trim tag as a paper credit card receipt (back in the day) and the trim tag machine as the old credit card machine. You put your credit card under the reciept and the machine rolls across it and makes an impression of your card in the reciept. All the info transferred over to the receipt by the raised letters on your card is perfectly legible on the paper copy (or the trim tag). If you were printing from the front you would need reversed characters, like they used to use when printing newspapers. You also would need to arrange the direction of the reversed stamps so that they read right to left (ie they would be legible in a mirror).

If you are stamping number in the surface of a material that is designed to be read from the same side, you need reversed characters like those used in the egg and gang stamps, used to place the partial VINs and engine suffix codes on the firewall and engine blocks.

[Kim_Howie]

Mark, think your last part over a little bit.