storage liner

[Scott S.]

Hi Everyone, I have a question about a storage liner I just got. I just receved a storage liner a excelent shape and it has a date stamped on the bottom of it 1 117 72 does any one know if GM date code the storage liners? it is made of the origanl fiber doard. I looked at the technical manual but it dident have anything about date code, If anything it's a grate addition to my vette. Thanks

[Ruedi K.]

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Hello Scott

Regarding this thread on another Corvette Forum http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c3-g...-this-fit.html
There was often a date stamp on the bottom.The date makes the tray suitable for certain groups of cars.

[Scott S.]

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Thanks Ruedi, I checked that web out I'm very happy I got that tray now. The wife thinks I'm NUTS for spending the money on a pice of card board but she just dont UNDERSTAND!!!!! LOL.

[Don L.]

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Hi Scott. I'm hoping/looking forward to some pretty interesting conversation on this one. I interpret the stamp to be showing that your tray was made either first shift (1) / November 7th (117) / 1972 (72) OR first shift (1) / January 17th (117) / 1972 (72). I don't believe the tray coding was done in the day-of-the-year format.

[Alan S.]

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Hi Don,
The SPACING of the digits on this stamp seems to lend credence to your 'month-day-year' suggestion.
Regards,
Alan

[Dave S.]

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Hi Don,
The SPACING of the digits on this stamp seems to lend credence to your 'month-day-year' suggestion.
Regards,
Alan

Alan,
The shift/month/day/year format is the way it was done. The confusion here is the 117 and not knowing if it was Nov (11) 7th or January (1) 17th. If we saw a photo of the stamp it may help to determine if it was Nov or january but in the absence of that we cannot tell.

[Don L.]

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Alan,
The shift/month/day/year format is the way it was done. The confusion here is the 117 and not knowing if it was Nov (11) 7th or January (1) 17th. If we saw a photo of the stamp it may help to determine if it was Nov or january but in the absence of that we cannot tell.

I agree, Dave. This is what I was trying to say in my earlier post. What will make this very interesting to me is the spacing in the "117" characters. The "1" character is so narrow, the combination of character width and spacing may make it difficult to acertain whether it's Nov 7th or January 17th. I too would love to see a photo of the stamp.

[Dave S.]

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I agree, Dave. This is what I was trying to say in my earlier post. What will make this very interesting to me is the spacing in the "117" characters. The "1" character is so narrow, the combination of character width and spacing may make it difficult to acertain whether it's Nov 7th or January 17th. I too would love to see a photo of the stamp.

Don,
Hopefully Scott will respond.

[Alan S.]

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Hi,
Sorry, I thought Don's post was concerning whether the 3 digits were month and day, or a Julian date.
Regards,
Alan

[Edward J.]

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I agree, Dave. This is what I was trying to say in my earlier post. What will make this very interesting to me is the spacing in the "117" characters. The "1" character is so narrow, the combination of character width and spacing may make it difficult to acertain whether it's Nov 7th or January 17th. I too would love to see a photo of the stamp.

Don,I was reading this post about and the date , it made me wonder about the spacing of the date as Alans post. I took a look at my 72 date, and it appears to have no space between the numbers.So I wonder if Scotts has a date stamp is like my 72. I looked at the photo I have on file at even the date font appears to be slightly diffferent than Alans. I did at sometime post a pic. of it here on the TDB, it is in the archives somewhere.

[Scott S.]

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HI Guys, I love everyones thinking Well I think I got the photostorage liner.jpgWhat do you think ? GOOD Topic

[Scott S.]

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I was just looking at the photo and notest that it seams that the one in front of the seventeen appears to be slightly larger. Maybe it could be Jan 17?. the car was produced Dec 7 71 acording to NCRS shipping data report. I know this is not orginal to my car or could it be in the same grouping that was produced at that time ?. I'm sorry guys I put the wrong date in earlyer it was produced in Dec 7 71 NOT 72 MY BAD!!!.

[Terry M.]

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Hi Everyone, I have a question about a storage liner I just got. I just receved a storage liner a excelent shape and it has a date stamped on the bottom of it 1 117 72 does any one know if GM date code the storage liners? it is made of the origanl fiber doard. I looked at the technical manual but it dident have anything about date code, If anything it's a grate addition to my vette. Thanks

The reason there is nothing about the date in the 1970-72 TIM&JG is because not all storage boxes had dates, and the thinking when we wrote that edition was to not penalize those with undated boxes by spelling out the details and effectively leaving the impression that all should have a date. Since these boxes are now being made to have any date you wish, it is hard to put much credibility in the date stamp.

[Dave S.]

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The reason there is nothing about the date in the 1970-72 TIM&JG is because not all storage boxes had dates, and the thinking when we wrote that edition was to not penalize those with undated boxes by spelling out the details and effectively leaving the impression that all should have a date. Since these boxes are now being made to have any date you wish, it is hard to put much credibility in the date stamp.

The made to order boxes that I have seen are generally not stamped very well. Many are easily detected. When you see and original like Alan's or the one being discussed here one can determine its originality fairly easily.

[Don L.]

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This thread is helping me learn more about the C3 storage bin. Thanks for posting Scott.

If the car that this bin came out of was produced in December 1972, I would think it's more logical that the bin's date is November 7th, rather than January 17th. It looks a bit to me that the characters in Scott's bin have similar structure, lending to the mystery of it's originality.

I've seen numerous stamps on these bins and have noticed that there were some with and some without shift ID. Spacing has been erratic. Additionally, "punctuation" marks appear on some and not on others.

I have attached a photo of the original bin that I restored (the one that I wrote the Summer 2009 Restorer article about). Notice the "period" between the month and the day ID. So, what's up with that?

Date - shift 2, June 21, 1971.jpg

Alan, I'm sorry I was not more clear in my post #4. I was trying to explain the date by example vs calling it Julian dating. I shuda done it right and apologize for any confusion.