Service Inspection - Vintage Sticker Placement

[Leif A.]

Re: Service Inspection - Vintage Sticker Placement

Ned,
I think the general consensus here is the "obtained" oil sticker has no place on a car that is going to be judged. It has no history with the car.

[Gene M.]

Re: Service Inspection - Vintage Sticker Placement

Ned,
I think the general consensus here is the "obtained" oil sticker has no place on a car that is going to be judged. It has no history with the car.

Leif,
As you know flight judging is as delivered condition. So there is a deduction in flight judging for applied sticker. It is a notable item in bow tie judging as it should be part of the car's history. A bogus added sticker is just nonsense.

[Edmund C.]

Re: Service Inspection - Vintage Sticker Placement

Fellows: I led with my chin on that query. Suffice it to say, the vintage oil sticker is not in play. However, I do have NOS 1966 Texas tags and a reproduction 1966 Texas inspection sticker. Those are just cool ... so be it if I lose a point or two on that. Thanks for straightening me out. Best, Ned

[Terry M.]

Re: Service Inspection - Vintage Sticker Placement

Fellows: I led with my chin on that query. Suffice it to say, the vintage oil sticker is not in play. However, I do have NOS 1966 Texas tags and a reproduction 1966 Texas inspection sticker. Those are just cool ... so be it if I lose a point or two on that. Thanks for straightening me out. Best, Ned

I have the annual village vehicle tax sticker from 1974 on my 1970. I have never lost a point for it, nor have I ever been questioned if it belongs to the car (it does). I have not been so fortunate for the Playboy sticker on the back window, and that too belongs to the car, and has interesting (to some people) provenance. The Playboy sticker makes for some light-hearted banter with the judges, so the few points lost is not so painful.

[Richard S.]

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In the mid to late 60's it was not uncommon to use service stickers to provide credibility to vehicles with rolled back odometers. As mentioned by Carl, the new sticker was placed over the existing ones and once every year or so the sticky mess would be removed. As a curious side note the new C4 in 1984 came with a digital dash however, the odometer remained the old style mechanical mechanism. Guess the designers felt the mechanical odometers were more trustworthy and less subject to tampering.

[Joe L.]

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Spent two summers in an Humble (now Exxon) so trust me we did not care where we placed the stickers, most of the time covered sticker already in door jam.

Carl-------


Yup. I worked part-time (mostly just Sundays) in a Chevron service station during my senior year in high school and my first year of college (by the way, this was my only employment ever in the automotive industry and, thus, where I learned everything I know). I was a pump jockey and "mechanic's helper". Among my jobs was to prepare/affix the door jamb sticker, prepare the invoice, clean the PCV valve, and clean spark plugs. I affixed a lot of those door jamb stickers and almost always on the driver's door. We had a few "persnickety" customers that didn't want the door jamb sticker attached and left that instruction up front. I recall one of them was a guy with a then-fairly-new 1962 2-door Chevrolet Impala. It was black with red interior and equipped with a 300 hp 327 and 4 speed transmission. I wonder if it's still around somewhere today?