How should a reproduction fender tag w/options should look like?

[Budnicks]

do this

unless you have a "real" build sheet, for that specific car
that says exactly what it was equipped with from the factory
it will always be a fake fender tag

or maybe

 

[fesser]

do this

unless you have a "real" build sheet, for that specific car
that says exactly what it was equipped with from the factory
it will always be a fake fender tag

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or maybe

For 68 and up I completely agree. I know my 68 Coronet was red. I know it had AC. I know it had a 440 magnum, and I know that it had a buddy bucket and not a console. I say "I know" based on knowing that the car was stored for about 30 years after being used as a beater drag racer and it had primer over a blue paint job, but red was found underneath it all, and in nooks and crannys not normally accessed to do a color change. As for AC "I know" because of the interior parts and the firewall, and the layers of crud and ratshit on top of the ac unit. And I say "I know" for the buddy buckets because they had the same 70's diamond tuck on the seats as the buddy bucket and all of the bracket welds were painted exactly the same as the floor. Could these things have been faked? Sure, if you believe that someone would go to that much trouble 30 years ago to make a pretty blah car. All that said, I personally wouldn't feel comfortable putting an exact reproduction fender tag on the car even if it only listed those things. Not saying I am right or someone else is wrong, but I don't know what was on the original tag, and it is gone. Now for the slippery slope part...on my 67 GTX I was able to get a photocopy of the IBM card from Stellantis and had it "decoded". According to the decode, the 67 was also not especially interesting, all though it appears that it should have come with headrests, no console, no buddy buckets, and no radio. I think, if I had more than one independent decoding of the IBM card, and they were consistent, I would be okay having a reproduced fender tag showing what the IBM says was the blueprint for the car. Even at that, I think I would only get one of the tags that some people make with a visual indicator stamped on the tag to show that it wasn't a factory tag. As we all have seen this topic comes up from time to time and I doubt anyone completely changes their mind on the topic but discussing it civilly can't hurt. As a side note, I apologize to MigsBig for the long post that doesn't even begin to answer what his tag would look like, because honestly, I have no idea.

 

[MarPar]

Opinion vary vastly what you should do...

Like this phony BS, 4 dr cuda' fake, with seemingly real looking fender tag

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of this allegedly

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That was never built ever, not even by the mail room guys memory

but was built like this BS a B body with 4 drs to look like a 70 4dr cuda

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[kiwigtx]

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