1967 Hardtop

[Rick A.]

was looking at a hardtop for a friend - have no reason to believe the hardtop is not original to his car - does have the AS4 logo in rear window, but NO date - installation, etc. of rear window appears to be correct

looked at the judging sheets and line item for this shows 20 points each for ORIG and COND - line item sez something like LOGO and DATE, and maybe something else - he is worried if he has car judged with hardtop he will lose the full 40 points!?

am thinking he would/could lose half the ORG points - so would lose 10 points, but should get FULL points on COND

what sez youse "sage" gurus??????

[Joe R.]

Re: 1967 Hardtop

Rick,

Have seen several HT's that the date does not show. It's slightly under the weatherstrip and cannot be viewed unless you carefully lift the weatherstrip.

JR

[Gerard F.]

Re: 1967 Hardtop

Rick,

I have an original 67 hardtop on my 67 convertible. (top is now in storage). Judged twice and no one could ever find a readable date code.
Took a minor deduct, with the comment "date code not readable" both times on condition.

Taking a look at JR's post, maybe I'll look under the weatherstrip.
Thanks for the tip JR.

[Steven C.]

Re: 1967 Hardtop

Hi Rick. I agree with Joe, it is under the weatherstrip. If the owner wants to show me, okay, otherwise I let it go if all else appears original. Most convertibles show up without the hardtop, so I don't see it often. Minor deduct.

[Wayne W.]

Re: 1967 Hardtop

My `67 , with an absolutely original untouched back window, has no visible date code. Probably there, but I am not diging into the w/s to find it. I have seen many, especially 67s that did not show.

[Wayne M.]

Re: 1967 Hardtop

OK you guys: is this May (month = E) of 1965 (year = E), with the month at the upper right ? I vaguely recall that the location of the month and year changed places for MY 1966+ ... is that correct ?

[Chris E.]

Re: 1967 Hardtop

I looked for my date code as well on my believed to be original HT, and couldn't find it. Car has been in the family since '73.