Service Inspection - Vintage Sticker Placement

[Edmund C.]

Gents: I bought a vintage Mobil Service inspection sticker from Bob Hoyte's business. Where exactly should it be placed (e.g., driver's side door on the inside right or the left door jamb)? Any guidance appreciated. Many thanks boys. Best, Ned

[Rich G.]

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My 68 has a Mobil oil change sticker on the door from 1973. It's on the rear door jamb on the door, not the body of the car, if that makes sense.

Rich

[Michael J.]

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Here is a picture of an old one (1972) from my '66.

[Gene M.]

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Why would you want to put a sticker on your car that is not real to said car? It would be meaningless as far as an actual oil change on your car back in the day......................?

[Mike E.]

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It's an interesting piece to add, if you want to do that. But do you really think that the gas station oil change guy got instructions on where to adhere that? Or that he paid any attention if he did? They were stuck on wherever they fit, usually on the back of the door, and were almost never straight.

[Michael J.]

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I think these kind of accoutrements are useful items that provide interesting historic context to a car. Like vintage dealer license plate frames, year of manufacture plates, vintage key fobs from your dealership, etc. But I agree, the oil change guys were not concerned with very much except getting a sticker someplace to let you know when the oil was changed.

[Michael W.]

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From a judging perspective, leave it in the envelope it came in.

[Edward B.]

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I think these kind of accoutrements are useful items that provide interesting historic context to a car.

Absolutely correct, so long as the items are original to the car they have historical significance. To add a period or a reproduction oil change sticker that has no connection to the car is a shoddy attempt to counterfeit history where none exists.

[Carl N.]

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Spent two summers in an Humble (now Exxon) so trust me we did not care where we placed the stickers, most of the time covered sticker already in door jam.

[Mark H.]

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From a judging perspective, leave it in the envelope it came in.

That's what I was thinking. If you're having or sometime have on planning the car judged, wouldn't that be a deduct since no car left St. Louis with one.

[Gene M.]

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Absolutely correct, so long as the items are original to the car they have historical significance. To add a period or a reproduction oil change sticker that has no connection to the car is a shoddy attempt to counterfeit history where none exists.

Post #4 was not answered so I'm assuming your "counterfeit history where none exists" is the case.

[Michael J.]

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Oh my, so now we are concerned about branding oil change stickers as counterfeit? That seems a bit extreme guys, sorry.

[Gene M.]

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Oh my, so now we are concerned about branding oil change stickers as counterfeit? That seems a bit extreme guys, sorry.

Well yeah, trying to make history for a car that does not exist..........?

[Michael J.]

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Well yeah, trying to make history for a car that does not exist..........?

True, we wouldn't want to mislead a future owner (who might attach tremendous value to oil change information) that the car actually had oil changes in it's past history, would we.........?

[Brian M.]

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Where do you draw the line with this nonsense?