Topic: 69 NJ - Buck Tag

[Brian Conway]

     I ordered a Marti Buck Tag last 12/19/14 and just got it today.  It has a few surprise stampings that are not on the Marti Deluxe Report options list.  On the Buck Tag; 1. CL is the Visibility Group/Courtesy Lights.  2.  GT is the GT Equipment Group  3.  MO is the Rocker Molding.  I would have thought these items would have been in the Mach 1 package ?  Not second guessing Marti just wasn't expecting this many ' option ' stamps.  Brian

[J_Speegle]

Consider that the buck tag (depending on plant and year) was a way for the office to communicate to the workers/builders of the body. So the information needed to be converted to "line speak" (for lack of a better term) so that what came out of the body build section was what you wanted to come out. Sometimes that meant that grouping multiple options together on one code (GT and Mach I)  for a certain operation (hole, bracket, body panel) reduced the number of codes, confusion and got the job done.
Does not mean that the specific car got all of the option just the body panel detail related to what every it was.



Not sure if I described that very well.


Line managers have told me that they changed the coding fairly often, when needed. One described a small pocket size decoders some of the workers carried. Stack of individual sheets of paper with a cardboard front and back "covers" held together with a single brad

[Brian Conway]

No, I get it.  In this case ' visibility Group ' means; drill the door for the remote control mirror mount.  Thanks for clearing that up.  Brian

[flyhigh@mach1]

That is a Marti report you can be proud of!  Nice options on the drive train.

[cobrajet_carl]

I am amazed at how many 4 speed CJs and B2s didn't come with tachs. I remember seeing a Marti report on an R-code 428SCJ 4 speed that had manual steering, drum brakes and no tach but it had an AM/FM stereo and tilt wheel! Don't remember what type of order it was, unfortunately.

[Vcode]

I am amazed at how many 4 speed CJs and B2s didn't come with tachs. I remember seeing a Marti report on an R-code 428SCJ 4 speed that had manual steering, drum brakes and no tach but it had an AM/FM stereo and tilt wheel! Don't remember what type of order it was, unfortunately.

The tach was standard on 1969 4-speed CJ's - it was a option for both 4-speed & auto in 1970

[cobrajet_carl]

Ah, that makes sense. Being 70-centric I wasn't aware that the tach was standard on 69's..