I have a question regarding the accepted distributor cap for 70-72 vs 69.
I am pretty sure that 70-72 JG indicates that the correct cap it the "Pat. Pending R".
However, I recently realized that the 68-69 JG indicates that 69 cars were known to have either the "Pat pending R" cap or the "Patent 2769047" cap.
Let me say that I am not at all familiar with the patent process but it seems to me that the Patent pending R cap would have likely existed before the patent 2769047 cap. (i.e. the patent pending status would chronologically occur before the time the patent number was issued). Accordingly, if the patent number 2769047 was issued by 1969 and reflected on caps installed on 1969 models, why couldn't 1970 through 1972 cars have been equipped with the "patent 2769047" cap?
Maybe my theory on how this process works and which cap existed before the other is not what actually happened.
Is there something that I am missing here? Or is one of these two JG's not entirely accurate regarding the cap usage?
I am pretty sure that 70-72 JG indicates that the correct cap it the "Pat. Pending R".
However, I recently realized that the 68-69 JG indicates that 69 cars were known to have either the "Pat pending R" cap or the "Patent 2769047" cap.
Let me say that I am not at all familiar with the patent process but it seems to me that the Patent pending R cap would have likely existed before the patent 2769047 cap. (i.e. the patent pending status would chronologically occur before the time the patent number was issued). Accordingly, if the patent number 2769047 was issued by 1969 and reflected on caps installed on 1969 models, why couldn't 1970 through 1972 cars have been equipped with the "patent 2769047" cap?
Maybe my theory on how this process works and which cap existed before the other is not what actually happened.
Is there something that I am missing here? Or is one of these two JG's not entirely accurate regarding the cap usage?