Soft Conv Top Paper Tags

[Harmon C.]

Your Right

Al K has the stiching wrong on all C-3 tops and I don't judge in other years so I can't comment on them. Also the installer misses the factory fit.

[Bob Babcock]

Re: Soft Conv Top Paper Tags

I couldn't agree more with Wayne and Art. Having been in Ham Radio for 40 years (and still quite active with Morse code), I have seen what happens to dinosaurs. Young people seem to choose the Internet over Ham Radio. The average age of licensed Hams must be 65 years old. No surprise! Fortunately, new digital modes are finding some appeal with the younger folks.

NCRS is not a dinosaur, but I do see similarities with the progressive new breed being our future and the old inflexible stalwarts driving them away by insisting on things that really don't make much sense in the big picture. When non-NCRS people ask about the soft-top tag (and they do), my party-line answer gets a chuckle. It really is silly. BTW, I wonder what the average age of NCRS members might be. Hmmmmm

[Bill Stephenson]

Re: Soft Conv Top Paper Tags

------Well,at 55 I feel like a dinosaur this Christmas day.Im sure glad the last four or five of you guys piped in.Paper tags,I cant believe how much time has been spent(almost said wasted)on this subject.It would seem to me that finding the traces of where the tag was would be good enough for almost anyone.
------The day I picked my 66 up new at the dealer(two days after its arrival)the tag was long gone.I called the manager out of his office and verbally berated him and his entire workforce for an hour for ruining the originality of my new Corvette.Because the originality was ruined by its removal I went straight to a local speed shop and bought headers and dual quads.Later that week I went to a local body shop and had all four wheel wells flared and four extra tail-lights installed.Oh,cut off the ugly front parking lights and covered over the headlights as well.......I mean,what was I to do.The originality was already gone.I could never replace that original tag..........
------Hopefully this will be read with the same sense of humor with which it is being written...........Bill S

[Gary C.]

Re: Soft Conv Top Paper Tags

I have a one owner 67 convertible (lady from Settle, used the car sparingly from 1967 to 2000, when she sold it to me -- Really). Well anyway among all the service reciepts and paperwork she gave me was a envelope with the selling dealers return adress printed on it. Inside was the pristine convertible top paper tag she had removed when the car was brand new. The tag even has a red crayon "X" inspection mark on it.

Just thought I would share an interesting sidebar to this thread.

Gary

[Wayne W.]

Re: Soft Conv Top Paper Tags

I often wonder how many tags actually made it to the showroom floor. Take a look at the AOS bodies sitting on the rail car with snow on them. The rail shipment to and from the factory alone would probably do them in.