Protect-o-plate
Melting Slicks
Joined: Jan 2007
Posts: 2,589
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From: Salisbury Maryland
If you're really lucky, it would have been located in a file folder marked "Corvette" or "Corvette Papers" given to you by the previous owner.
If you're extremely lucky, someone will find it in a box lot at a auction, recognize what it is, list it here on the forum, and give it back to you free!
The latter being highly unlikely.
Otherwise, by now, it's probably buried under 30 feet of landfill soil in Somewhere, USA.
If you're extremely lucky, someone will find it in a box lot at a auction, recognize what it is, list it here on the forum, and give it back to you free!
The latter being highly unlikely.
Otherwise, by now, it's probably buried under 30 feet of landfill soil in Somewhere, USA.
Drifting
Joined: Feb 2000
Posts: 1,591
Likes: 53
From: Central MN
mstanton.......Please, explain how the Protect-o-Plate can be used to document the car. I have the Protect-o-Plate for my '70, but I do not have the window or tank sticker.
Edit: The Protect-o-Plate has the second owner's address and VIN on it. (The car was sold to the second owner within GM's 12mo./12K mile warrantee period.) Other than that, there isn't very much info. on it.
Edit: The Protect-o-Plate has the second owner's address and VIN on it. (The car was sold to the second owner within GM's 12mo./12K mile warrantee period.) Other than that, there isn't very much info. on it.
Last edited by Cosmo Kramer; Sep 18, 2007 at 08:25 PM.
Drifting
Joined: Jun 2003
Posts: 1,455
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From: Upstate South Carolina
Original protecto plates will contain VIN, engine stamp pad info, transmission, rear axle, and carb info, as well as if the car came with power steering, power brakes, stereo, air conditioning, or power windows. You can see that the car below had 350hp, M20, 3.36 rear, power steering and brakes, stereo, A/C, and power windows.
Drifting
Joined: Feb 2000
Posts: 1,591
Likes: 53
From: Central MN
According the warrantee pamphlet, for $25.00, the second owner could get a replacement Protect-o-Plate issued in their name. Unfortunately, however, the information on the replacement Protect-o-Plate only contains the new owner's name and address as well as the VIN.
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