Aus ss396

Hi
I'm in the process of buying my first corvette. I have been sent photos of numbers and tags which match everything.
The car is meant to be unrestored but there is black overspray visible on the tags and bar they are riveted to. I can see the bar is the same colour blue as the exterior but a slight smattering of black spray is visible. There is visible black overspray on vin and trim tags.
My first question is that possible from the factory to have black paint overspray on tags? I have tried to research this but found nothing.
If it is the case that it is not factory then why would someone be spraying black paint under in this area of an unrestored car? Just wondering?
My second question are the vin and tag dates. I researched the vin and the date shows July 8 1967. The trim tag shows K22..June 22 1967 is that a reasonable gap between the two? I read somewhere it is only usually a few days were this is 3 weeks?
Thanks

66jack

There should not be any paint on the tags...

The color of the Zbar should be green...

Boyan

You should post many photos of the cars important parts like engine pad, frame, suspension, Vin and trim tags.......so you dont get burned

rtruman

yea show us pictures then we will let you know what you have.

Nowhere Man

St Louis blacked out the bird cage area of the trim and vin tag before they were applied Smith bodies did not they were the green color and also shown body color overspray on the outer most edge

rsinor

Is this vehicle a St Louis body or A O Smith, that can be determined by body number assuming trim tag is correct.

Aus ss396

Thanks for the replies. The tag says 67 467. A-4986

Terry

Nowhere Man

that is a A.O. Smith body

rsinor

The dates you originally posted are not out of line for an A O Smith, bodied vehicle, if the tag is real.