[70TA-RAIII]

Here's the jack out of my other 70 TA. I don't think it's original or correct for the car, but it's more of a gray/blue color that I seem to remember from back in the day. It might work for the car, but I would want to add a rubber pad to the part that contacts the bumper surface. No date code on the rivet head. A "U" on the base.

John

[FunctionalShaker]

Here are a couple of original paint 70 Norwood jacks. 0C and 0E date codes.

[70TA-RAIII]

Ok thanks. A little darker blue than what I remembered.

John

[SD455DJ]

Here's the original finishes on a Norwood jack (0B) date.

Dennis

[70TA-RAIII]

Thanks. That pretty much matches the shade of FunctionalShaker's pics above.

John

[73sd]

Just my 2 cents. My Grandfather worked at GM and Chrysler, my dad Gm and Chrysler, My uncle Chrysler and in 1981 I purchased a 1973 340 Cuda which was all complete, had some rust and engine ran ok but burned some oil. A couple of guys at a local cruise night at Neba in Ft Lauderdale started picking it apart with this and that being wrong. When I asked my dad about this he commented Gm and Chrysler would have several venders for most every part that was not made in-house so these vendors would make a part based on an engineered drawing and as long as the part meet the spec. it would be used.
My dad said a part could have a couple different color, and finish combinations between batches of that same part. This is why these jacks seem to have so many variations. So if it seems to be close in appearances to others, fits in the brackets in the trunk and if it has a date code before you cars production date, use it because based on my dad and relatives statements it could be considered correct to that car on that day it was made. One last thing my dad said was in any factories back then and now was that nobody wanted to do "SHUT DOWN THE LINE" so the car required a jack, it got "A" jack, SOME" jack, they just were not that particular about things back then. I also have a customer that worked as a mechanic at Ace Wilson Royal Pontiac in late 60s-early 70s confirmed what my dad had said which was manufactures and dealers just wanted to sell cars and get them out the door. These were people that were there when these cars were made.