Yellow Canadian L89

[njsteve]

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Beautiful job on the L-89 car even if the trim tag is fake. Did anyone notice that the putty used on both the L-89 and Green COPO look the same? Did the same person restore both cars? I believe the putty or filler was installed right after the rivets and then the black firewall paint was applied. The putty on these cars looks like an afterthought.

Paul

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You could always try to perform a fingerprint comparison of the thumb prints in the two car's putty-filled rivets!

By the way, I wouldn't put too much nefarious evidentiary value in rivet putty: when you strip a firewall with chemical stripper you have to dig the original putty out of those rivets because it will act like a sponge and hold the stripper residue forever. When I cleaned and stripped the upper cowl on my T/A, I ran into the same problem. So I now have the dreaded thumbprint-puttied rivets on my car, too!

Before stripping:



After stripping. Looks like a completely different tag once all the paint layers are gone:



After paint, before thumb-applied putty:



And for security reasons I wont be showing my thumb-printed puttied rivets for fear of someone attempting to match my thumb puttied rivets to other less scrupulous rivet thumb putty application technicians' wares.

[olredalert]

--------Hey Steve,,,Im wondering what the 6 and 1 mean that are stamped inward on your tag???........Bill S

[njsteve]

My guess is that they are inspectors' stamps of some sort. No more "P" "T" or "B" paint stamps in 1972, maybe this replaced them.

[Charley Lillard]

I would guess they were stamped by the dealer as a type of inventory.