67 Corvette Trim Tag

[Rick C.]

Has anyone ever seen a trim tag on a February 67 built car with no period after the word Corp?

[Joe L.]

Re: 67 Corvette Trim Tag

Has anyone ever seen a trim tag on a February 67 built car with no period after the word Corp?

Rick------


I have not although that certainly does not mean that some might have been this way.

However, the thing that would make me very suspicious is that this part of the trim tag was part of the BLANK. I could understand this kind of discrepancy in the embossments on the tag that were done at St. Louis or Ionia but I would not expect it on the BLANK.

[Jack M.]

Re: 67 Corvette Trim Tag

Rick- Are you certain itz just not a bad photo, and the period is somehow obscured... have you examined the tag in person?
Here are several 67 Trim Tag images (from the web) in a composite... on occasion, the last period appears different than the first.
In the top three images, I can barely make out that last period... and for the last image, I don't see anything at all.

1967 Trim Tags.jpg

[Rick C.]

Re: 67 Corvette Trim Tag

Hi Jack
I will have someone go to the car and check maybe take a better photo.

[Tony S.]

Re: 67 Corvette Trim Tag

In this photo you can plainly see the DOT or PERIOD after the Letters DIV. If one were to run their finger along the embossed letters you could surely feel if the DOT was there or non. I cannot see the DOT or Period after the word Corp and my Feb. car has the DOT or Period. Since we are on the topic,
my collection of trim tag photos also show that there are tags with the DOT or Period after the letters STD Before January and not after. This my view and opinion.

[Patrick B.]

Re: 67 Corvette Trim Tag

Green was a popular color in 1967, but it fell from favor. Lots of red and black cars started as green and many were given fake trim tags. But I don't think there is a trend to use fake trim tags to make green (code 983) cars. This car certainly deserves the benefit of the doubt regarding periods.

[Gary S.]

Re: 67 Corvette Trim Tag

Yes, go take another picture. I blew the picture up and I think the period is there...there is an image in the exact place the period is suppose to be, it just does not show up as plainly as it should probably due to angle, lighting, camera quality or....

[Joe L.]

Re: 67 Corvette Trim Tag

In this photo you can plainly see the DOT or PERIOD after the Letters DIV. If one were to run their finger along the embossed letters you could surely feel if the DOT was there or non. I cannot see the DOT or Period after the word Corp and my Feb. car has the DOT or Period. Since we are on the topic,
my collection of trim tag photos also show that there are tags with the DOT or Period after the letters STD Before January and not after. This my view and opinion.

Tony-----


The "STD" was embossed at St. Louis or Ionia. As I mentioned, I could more understand variations for these embossments.

[Owen L.]

Re: 67 Corvette Trim Tag

Tony-----


The "STD" was embossed at St. Louis or Ionia. As I mentioned, I could more understand variations for these embossments.

Not intending to side track this topic...
Do we know why the alignments of the cars' information is so poorly placed within the tag layout? I would assume a jig was used but why didn't "they" set it up more carefully? Was there some sort of limitation with the stamping process?

[Joe L.]

Re: 67 Corvette Trim Tag

Not intending to side track this topic...
Do we know why the alignments of the cars' information is so poorly placed within the tag layout? I would assume a jig was used but why didn't "they" set it up more carefully? Was there some sort of limitation with the stamping process?

Owen------


If I remember correctly, these were done on a version of an old-fashioned "address-o-graph" machine. Of course, they were done individually for each car by assembly line personnel. The machine may have been worn and/or the line operator making the tag not too careful. I highly doubt that perfection for these was a really high priority. As long as they conveyed the proper information, that was fine.

The blanks, on the other hand, were mass produced. Thousands of blanks were likely made from the same die set up. So, care was taken for the initial set-up and and any "miscreants" discarded prior to shipping to the assembly plant. By the way, I believe these particular blanks were used only for Corvette since tags for all other GM cars were embossed "Body by Fisher". Corvette was the only platform I know of that was "Body by Chevrolet"

[Tony S.]

Re: 67 Corvette Trim Tag

Do we all agree that the mass produced blanks that were made from the same die set-up had pre-stamped information and that the letters and periods all appeared on every Tag including the word CORP. which is part of the pre-stamped information?

[Vinnie P.]

Re: 67 Corvette Trim Tag

There is a very comprehensive Trim Tag book for sale right from the NCRS store...should answer all your questions

https://www.ncrs.org/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=78_1_67&products_id=240

[Jack M.]

Re: 67 Corvette Trim Tag

I found a larger version of this trim tag online... and enlarged, I'm seeing a 'shadow' dot (similar to a few images in the composite I posted earlier).
Again, it can all be an optical illusion... hope you can obtain a better photo.

Trim_Tag.jpg

[Owen L.]

Re: 67 Corvette Trim Tag

Owen------

If I remember correctly, these were done on a version of an old-fashioned "address-o-graph" machine. Of course, they were done individually for each car by assembly line personnel. The machine may have been worn and/or the line operator making the tag not too careful. I highly doubt that perfection for these was a really high priority. As long as they conveyed the proper information, that was fine.

Thanks Joe. If I were the employee running the stampings, I guess the compulsive-ity of my nature would have forced me to try to get the address-o-graph better aligned! Maybe the designer of the tag didn't anticipate the need for the body date at the top (which seems to force the following information downward.) Which begs the question as to why the date isn't stamped as a bottom line? And why doesn't the date have its own call out identifier? (Did I mention I'm a tad anal compulsive? -- especially about graphic design things)

The blanks, on the other hand, were mass produced. Thousands of blanks were likely made from the same die set up. So, care was taken for the initial set-up and and any "miscreants" discarded prior to shipping to the assembly plant. By the way, I believe these particular blanks were used only for Corvette since tags for all other GM cars were embossed "Body by Fisher". Corvette was the only platform I know of that was "Body by Chevrolet"

I never thought about the uniqueness of the Corvette's body affecting that. I fondly recall our family's brand new '68 Bonneville station wagon and the "Body by Fisher" logo.
(not our car but similar)
pontiac__bonneville_station_wagon_1969_1_lgw.jpg

[Tony S.]

Re: 67 Corvette Trim Tag

How about this Tag then?67- Discussion Tag Compare-2.jpg67- Discussion Tag Compare.jpg