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Originally Posted by Stuart

Very cool.

If you want exact layout dimensions for the arrowhead, I posted this image some years ago; it's from an internal Pontiac design manual from 1964 (I don't know if it was changed at all in subsequent years, like if that star in the middle was kept or deleted.)

Thanks for that, I’ll compare those dimensions to what is on there now. A good friend of mine is a professional automotive stylist and he did the design of the lid. We went through many variations and landed on the version you see. I would not be at all surprised if the arrow is pretty close to the original- I know he did research during the design process.

I will definitely check though.

Here are a couple of the early iterations:

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