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[427king]

After reading this entire thread ive decided to start a trim tag caulk registry. I am contacting everyone that is selling a car on ebay and asking them for a close up of the caulk on thier trim tags. Maybe there is a relation between plants and caulk. IE California built cars may be prone to "caulk running" due to the heat,maybe in the summer months the caulk will be different than in winter months. I will setting up a tent for anyone interested in getting a caulk certificate at some local shows.

[Rainer]

Caulk can be very complex. There was a great bit on Crank Yankers about it....

http://www.comedycentral.com/motherload/...p;is_large=true

[firez]

Hey Maxx did you use to bring your camaros up to Woodstock Ontario for the shows years ago. I was looking at a picture from 8 years ago of a 69 pace car and a 68 Z28 side by side. I think Mr.English owned the pace car and you had the 68 z28. Beautiful cars.

[TimG]

I think that before the science of trim tags evolved, many folks changed trim tags on all kinds of cars. The originals were lost or tossed and a reproduction put on to reflect what the restorer wanted. Now trim tags are, with out a doubt, harder to fake than an engine block.
I owned a '69 Pace Car that burnt in a fire, the trim tag melted. If anyone rebuilds that car, they'd have to replace the trim tag with a reproduction due to the loss of the original. They could include all of the original data, but it would be a reproduction on an original Pace Car with the original engine (what's left of it). It would probably raise lots of questions.

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

"....It would probably raise lots of questions...."

As it should! A car that got burnt in a fire, lost it's tag, and got rebuilt - has a story to tell that will answer the questions.

[427king]

If someone removed the winters casting mark on the aluminum heads ,does that mean the car isnt real???? You guys are forgetting that alot of people took off cowl tags to make the firewall and cowl area look cleaner,and others took them off to sand blast the body and they got misplaced . If this car is a canada docs car[or a US car with buildsheet],ill take it over any undocumented real tag car.There is a guy in CT that sells trim tags on ebay like they are jujubees,if anyones car went thru his hands in the past, theyd have a car with no tag for sure.I assume the way he got them is that he bought cars and sold them without a cowl tag,since 10/15 years ago noone even looked at them and wouldnt know if they were missing . To assume the car isnt real because a meaningless tag was changed is not being fair to the seller unless you know for a fact that something else is going on.

[LVCamaro]

uh-oh...we agree again, Chuck.

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