1967 Voltage Regulator Cover

[Neal K.]

I have an early production 1967. The voltage regulator cover says Delco Remy Made In USA. I saw a picture of a votage regulator cover for a later production 1967 which says Delco Remy Made in U.S.A. The difference being the periods between the USA letters. Can anyone explain what the difference means?
Tnaks
Neal

[Harry S.]

Re: 1967 Voltage Regulator Cover

Here is the old story....

USA is a city in Japan. U.S.A is us.

[Neal K.]

Re: 1967 Voltage Regulator Cover

Harry,
Thanks for the quick response. Just for my clarification. Are you saying that the cover with USA is not original and the U.S.A. is?
Neal

[Harry S.]

Re: 1967 Voltage Regulator Cover

Neal, I'm just saying that in the distant past when the "periods" were not there is was an attempt by Japan to fool Americans. There is a city actually called USA. Pronounced OUOUSA

[Wayne M.]

Re: 1967 Voltage Regulator Cover

Harry,
Thanks for the quick response. Just for my clarification. Are you saying that the cover with USA is not original and the U.S.A. is?
Neal

Apparently there are variations out there. There is (was ?) a warning in the tech judging guides to score volt reg covers with the "Remy" starting immediately under the "D" of Delco as non-typical factory production. Does yours have this feature ?

I examined about 7 covers I have, on dates from 5x to 9x on the 1119515 series, and all have the USA without periods. Does your version with dots affect the vertical alignment ? ie. on all of mine the "A" in USA ends under the "tail" of the "Y" on Remy.

There must be (still) millions of these volt regs out there. I don't know why anybody would repop them.

[Neal K.]

Re: 1967 Voltage Regulator Cover

Wayne,
My cover is like yours, without the periods between the letters.
As far as the alignment of the words is concerned I will have to get back to you. My car is being worked on so I will have to go to the shop and look at the cover again.

[Neal K.]

Re: 1967 Voltage Regulator Cover

I just consulted my copy of the Judging manual. On the bottom of page 90 it says "MADE IN THE USA". With no periods in between the USA letters.
Any more thoughts on this?

[Dan D.]

Re: 1967 Voltage Regulator Cover

FYI, for what its worth I have an original 63 regulator. It is probably off an pass car, but it is still a 515 regulator. I doubt if the lid has ever been off. It looks like this:

The 'R' in Remy is below the 'l' in Delco

MADE IN U.S.A.

The 'M' in MADE is indented slightly after the 'D' in Delco

The 'A.' in U.S.A. is under the 'y' in Remy

Don't know if this helps at all, but I have owned this thing since 1963 or 1964. I believe it is a 63, but could be a 64. -Dan-

[Stephen L.]

Re: 1967 Voltage Regulator Cover

I have a cover that I pulled off a 67 Impala in the boneyard. It has U S A and no periods, however, there is a space between the letters as compared with the other script. The regulator appeared to be original....

[Dan D.]

Re: 1967 Voltage Regulator Cover

So it would appear that sometime between 1963 and1967 the tooling was replaced, or maybe the dots just wore down and it was deemed to be minor enough not to fix it. That would explain why there is still spacing between the letters. -Dan-

[Jack H.]

Re: 1967 Voltage Regulator Cover

Or, there was more than one set of tooling for stamping/forming covers... This is something we often don't consider when we attempt to distinguish 'real' vs. 'replacement' parts.

For components churned out in the millions of units per annum level, it's pretty tough to swallow the concept of GM having only ONE set of production tooling or that ALL of the assy tools were dead nuts on, identical!

[William C.]

Re: 1967 Voltage Regulator Cover

I'm with you jack! At a run rate of 24,000 vehicles each day in '73, not including Service, hard to believe there weren't multiple tools involved, especially with the deep draw in the stamping.

[David S.]

Re: 1967 Voltage Regulator Cover

Or, there was more than one set of tooling for stamping/forming covers... This is something we often don't consider when we attempt to distinguish 'real' vs. 'replacement' parts.

For components churned out in the millions of units per annum level, it's pretty tough to swallow the concept of GM having only ONE set of production tooling or that ALL of the assy tools were dead nuts on, identical!

Jack,

I also agree. I think you're right on the money with this idea.

-Dave

[Gerard F.]

Re: 1967 Voltage Regulator Cover

Guys,

No periods in the USA on my late 67 Voltage Regulator:



Guaranteed original to the car, but I have repainted it now. You would think there would be some remnant of a period if it were a worn tool, but nada.

[Scott S.]

Re: 1967 Voltage Regulator Cover

The example I have is from a restored 1119515 Voltage Regulator dated "6M". It has barely visible periods after the "U" and the "S", but the period after "A" has disappeared, either from worn tooling or possibly from bead-blasting before repaint.