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10-03-2020, 11:48 AM
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'64 Cowl Tag
Hello,
I'd like to get some feedback on this cowl tag from a '64 GTO I'm interested in. What's with all those ampersands (&) displayed on this tag? I've never seen anything like it. Thanks a lot
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10-03-2020, 01:07 PM
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Interesting tag!
 Off-hand, I'd say the operator flipped the wrong thing '&' instead of what it had or just a 'blank space' on the setup? Does your car have any items that should have been stamped on it? 
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10-03-2020, 02:46 PM
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Looks to me that there were codes stamped originally and the ampersands were stamped over the top to "x" them out, so to speak.
I've never seen anything like that either. I've seen "& " designating special paint but nothing like this. K
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10-03-2020, 03:19 PM
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It's not my car, it's a car for sale. As of yet, I haven't seen it in person.
I too have read that "&" can designate a special paint color but never a long string of these. Maybe the plant re-used this tag that was originally slated for another car (like Keith has suggested).
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10-04-2020, 09:49 AM
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Maybe the guy who screwed up the 3 Kansas City cowl tags from '64 GTOs,
(mine being one of them), got transferred to the Pontiac Plant doing the same work. JUST KIDDING. I have never seen a Pontiac, Baltimore, Kansas City, or Fremont data plate (in my lifetime), that ever looked like that. Appears that they took a regular plate, "&" out the valid info, and added the 5N to make it appear as a GTO for sales purposes. One thing to leave a code off the plate, another to add info after the fact when the data plate was already created. Maybe John V has seen something like this in the past. Tom V.
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