Im looking to have some "paint ok" stamps made for my Jan NJ coupe. From what I've gathered I should have two different names. One on the cowl for the unibody paint then another on the inner fenders for parts painted off the car.
First be aware that "stock fonts" or modern fonts will match the original fonts used.
Yes like other plants one inspector would inspect the unibody and a different one would inspect the parts that were painted off the car in another part of the plant. Only certain of those were normally stamped
The cowl of the unibody wasn't the place where all 66 NJ cars were stamped - it seemed to vary allot at that plant from original examples and its not unusual to find the unibody stamped multiple times
I'm curious if anyone has some rough dimensions of these stamps? Im going to pull my front headlight buckets off and see if I can find some original markings for inspector names. In the event I cannot find any is there an "acceptable" list of names to utilize? It appears that these were all done in yellow ink.
Will have to take a measurement. Remember that final size is very different from stamp size. You have to consider expansion/compression of the stamp surface, slippage and media buildup on the edges of each letter. Because of this you often see stamps reproduced much larger than what was originally done. Then one guy will loan that stamp out, the next will stamp it and use that copy to make another stamp and so on. Pretty soon its not even close
There are names we can identify as working that year
Being that my car is springtime yellow would that of changed where they may of been placed?
No have examples of springtime yellow 66 NJ cars that were stamped yellow over the spring time yellow. Remember the yellow used for the estamps was a very different color/tint
