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It should be the charcoal metallic. It most likely got painted during a engine bay make over. The charcoal metallic could have a bit of splatter from fire wall sound deadener sealing.
I am in the process of restoring my Tilt-A-Way steering column and I was surprised to find a January date stamp one the column. I didn't expect to see such an early date stamp on my car, but obviously some parts could have been dated that early. My understanding was that parts should be close to body shell assembly date. In my case April 1968 or a month before approx. Is this in line with other observations?
Interesting. Not allot of other examples for comparison but we have to start somewhere. Consider that its that make up unpopular options would have been produced in small groups than the items they used on every car and in turn would have sat on a shelf somewhere longer so the "range" can be greater. The silver labels are not (as far as I know) commercially available as reproductions. On the last car I did with a tilt I can't recall if we made on our reused a nice original
Thanks Jeff. Do you know what the label indicated. Was it from the manufacturer or from Ford. I wish I could save it, but it is too far gone. It looks to have originally been silver in color and I could not make out any other text or numbers. I wonder if anyone has an intact example I could use for reference.
Almost a mylar material just not as shinny IMHO - closer to the material the service decals on the shock tower were made from. The sticker was most likely applied at the supplier and just identified the date and possibly the shift/plant it was completed at and on. Only thing your missing on the example you posted is the final two digits possible a "2A" On other steering columns (haven't seen them on a tilt 68 one yet) a paper sticker on the "bellows" and there is a wire label on the turn indicator wire loom that I reproduced for a friend . Think we're past the one year exclusive policy I set for much of the custom work
Just curious regarding these steering column parts.
My recall of 68 San Jose pieces was that the clamp (top and bottom ones) were black while the parts that make up the steering column itself with Charcoal. Lets see what others have found The lower firewall bracket/clamp I seem to remember as being dipped or at least some with heavy runs - will check my pictures
Corrected my earlier response since it makes sense that the upper clamp matched the steering column. I was reminded of this once I look through the pictures and saw the cars with other interior colors and how they were painted/color applied