Decode Mania! Pile O' Cowl Tags...

Discussion in 'The "Paper Trail"' started by 70sportwagon, Feb 26, 2004.

  1. 70sportwagon

    70sportwagon Silver Level contributor

    Here is the first cowl tag in the stack of tags I found out of 20 years of scrapped cars.


    If you like this stuff like I do, take a run at decoding them and post a reply!

    I will tell you that I bought this car at a junkyard here in Minnesota in about 1988 for the dash cluster with tach. It was hit in the front VERY hard. At the time I had a contact at this junkyard that set stuff aside for me before they got picked over.

    Ahh the good old days when there were actually junkyards to go to....
     

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  2. Brad Conley

    Brad Conley Guest

    This looks like fun....:Brow:

    1970 GS 455 hardtop built 3rd week of December 1969 at the Kansas plant. Picture is kinda fuzzy on the paint code, either 26 (Stratomist Blue - a SCO car!!) or 28-Diplomat Blue with a white vinyl top and white bucket interior.

    That would have been a beautiful car in either color!
     
  3. flynbuick

    flynbuick Guest

    I read it as a 26A. Wow what a car it must have been. RIP in the big boneyard in the sky.
     
  4. 70sportwagon

    70sportwagon Silver Level contributor

    It is actually 28 code Diplomat Blue. The back half of the car was in great shape for a Northern car and was used to restore a 1971 GS coupe that eventually was sold as a nice driver to a guy in Michigan. I still have most of the rest of the bits and pieces on the shelf. I look at the tach every time I drive my 71 GS !

    I will post more tags tonight!
     
  5. Marco

    Marco Well-Known Member

    Riviera paint codes would be preceded by a 'R' on the cowls.

    - so, if it was 26 (stratomist), the paint code on the cowl would state R26 A
     
  6. bignastyGS

    bignastyGS Maggot pilot

    Is the 185 trim Ivory???? Brad,Marco,or Jim,What does the numbers 00825 designate after the build date?There are a couple of numbers like those on the 70 we have here and couldn't remember what they were for exactly.Enlighten me.
    Thanks,Pat
     
  7. flynbuick

    flynbuick Guest

    185= pearl white

    00825 = option codes( I thought)

    8= ps
    2= ac
    5=am/fm stereo
     
  8. Marco

    Marco Well-Known Member

    I've seen these 'batch codes' on Freemont and KC cars. Must be something peculiar at these Fisher Body plants.

    Sorry, but I don't know how to decipher them.

    Freemont cars have two 'sets' of these codes (six digits each, I think) :Do No:
     
  9. BUQUICK

    BUQUICK I'm your huckleberry.


    I thought the AM/FM stereo didn't become available in the Buick A-body until '72?
     
  10. flynbuick

    flynbuick Guest

    I agree with that Gary. That is the option code though in 70 for am/fm stereo. Mono had another number.


    That is why I hedged a bit. Option codes are seen on some Buicks in that location. I'm guessing Marco is correct and this number is something else and the "5" option was in 70 reserved for cars like Rivs and not skylarks.
     
  11. BUQUICK

    BUQUICK I'm your huckleberry.

    numbers

    flynbuick

    do you have a list showing what others numbers and positions mean?
     
  12. Marco

    Marco Well-Known Member

  13. 67 Post GS

    67 Post GS Well-Known Member

    Can somebody decode my trim tag - ST 69-43327 BF 00131 BDY, TR 118 B80 B90 57 B PNT , . 09B 019794 160075 , any please Thanks Ron
     
  14. Doo Wop

    Doo Wop Where were you in '62?

    Think the "Stereo" for '70 was the 8 Track Player reference....not the radio.
     
  15. George D.

    George D. Platinum Level Contributor

    Ron- I'm guessing this isfor your 69 California? 43327= special deluxe post coupe, BF = plant, B80/B90 are option codes (don't have my book handy)... 57= Verde Green body with a ______vinyl top. 118 = color of the BENCH interior (I think black- again, no books are close)... 09B= second week ofSeptember, 1968..
     
  16. 67 Post GS

    67 Post GS Well-Known Member

    Thanks for the help. I'd like to find out the B80 /B90 option codes are ? If you have time to check your books I need all the help I can get ? Thanks Ron
     
  17. Where are these tags on the car?
     
  18. thepartsman

    thepartsman Back Ordered Again ?

    B80 = Drip Rail Moldings
    B90 = Exterior, Side window reveal moldings


    "Where are these tags on the car? ."
     

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  19. 67 Post GS

    67 Post GS Well-Known Member

    Thanks to all that helped . Ron
     
  20. Thank you! I found it while i was looking for the block date code.
     

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