Grease pencil Markings
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Grease pencil Markings
I'm getting ready to turn my 1972 coupe over to the painter and was wondering if I should have him cover up the grease pencil markings on the underside of the hood. It has a date and also some other numbers. I was told from a person who used to work at a Chevrolet dealership, that these were put on by the dealership workers when they prepped the car. Any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated..Steve
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I'm getting ready to turn my 1972 coupe over to the painter and was wondering if I should have him cover up the grease pencil markings on the underside of the hood. It has a date and also some other numbers. I was told from a person who used to work at a Chevrolet dealership, that these were put on by the dealership workers when they prepped the car. Any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated..Steve
these were used by factory workers to keep up with the various panels that belonged to a single Corvette while the body panels were being produced and assembled. Remember, the body is basically a custom operation back than, each panel custom fitted to a location. Grease markings were used to idenitfy the panels as well as to inform other workers what power configuration, and options were to be installed on this vehicle so to ensure holes were left in place, added, etc.
When restoring highly valued Corvette models, the restorer attempts to restore these grease markings to parallel the original markings.
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Lets see, gain of getting them painted over, a nice shinny finnish for your engine to look at.
Gain of leaving them on an original chrome bumper car, authenticity and pedigree back to the day see was built,, irreplacable as well. hmmmmm?
Gain of leaving them on an original chrome bumper car, authenticity and pedigree back to the day see was built,, irreplacable as well. hmmmmm?
