HELP! is this body stencil right

[Domenic T.]

I looked thtu the archives and this stencil looks wrong to me.

My vin # is194377S117702 and I sent that to LICorvette. Plugged in it gave me this info.

1967 coupe, built in St. Louis
Wed May 03 1967

I thought I understood what I read in the archives, then I looked at the stencil (picture attached) that they sent.

DOM

[Gary S.]

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I have a collection of original frame stencils on my web site if you want to look. There are two pages of them so far. If anyone else whats to add theirs, please send it to me and I will. Would like the vin # if you send it. Gary (seymour@sosbbs.com)

http://www.intentor.org/corvettes/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=album37

[Tom H.]

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This one from Gary's site appears to be like the one.

[Domenic T.]

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Gary & Tom,
Thanks, I guess the date part on my stencil is the confusing part along with the - 33 instead of the - GC .
Mine was perfect till I epoxy primed the body and the card board between the body and frame slid out. I was watching the spray fan and didn't see that the card board was gone and I made the #s almost invisible, wouldn't wipe off either.
I HAVE A CAMERA IN THE SHOP NOW.
Is the 303196 - 33 the date?

DOM

[Philip C.]

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Gary & Tom,
Thanks, I guess the date part on my stencil is the confusing part along with the - 33 instead of the - GC .
Mine was perfect till I epoxy primed the body and the card board between the body and frame slid out. I was watching the spray fan and didn't see that the card board was gone and I made the #s almost invisible, wouldn't wipe off either.
I HAVE A CAMERA IN THE SHOP NOW.
Is the 303196 - 33 the date?

DOM

Dom they sent you the part number only, untill now "I" thought the date was always written on the frame with a grease pencil or cayron, but seeing the photos, it was both ways. Phil 8063

[Domenic T.]

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Thanks philip,
I guess I need to order the date now to go with this stencil.

DOM

[John H.]

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Dom they sent you the part number only, untill now "I" thought the date was always written on the frame with a grease pencil or cayron, but seeing the photos, it was both ways. Phil 8063

Phil -

There was no St. Louis-applied "pull date" scrawled on '67 frames - that stopped at the end of the '66 model year. Most '67 frame stencils had the date on the same line as the "303196".

[Philip C.]

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Phil -

There was no St. Louis-applied "pull date" scrawled on '67 frames - that stopped at the end of the '66 model year. Most '67 frame stencils had the date on the same line as the "303196".

Hi John but Dom still needs a stencil for his date, 33 is not the date the frame was pulled, its part of the frame numbering system telling a period of time. Phil 8063

[Domenic T.]

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Dom they sent you the part number only, untill now "I" thought the date was always written on the frame with a grease pencil or cayron, but seeing the photos, it was both ways. Phil 8063

Phill,
Thanks for the interest, Thats what I thought after reading the archives. I am not going to put this on my frame till I understand it.

DOM

[Gerard F.]

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Phill,
Thanks for the interest, Thats what I thought after reading the archives. I am not going to put this on my frame till I understand it.

DOM

Dom,

Here's mine on a June 29 67:



I have the "- G. C." on the line with 303196

After 3900200, I have "-34 6-20-67" which is very hard to read in the photo.

Note that the 67 Judging Guide admits that there were variances in the stencils.

My original stencil is not the same as the one in the Judging Guide. The date and GC on mine are on different lines than the one in the JG.

[Gary B.]

'66 stencil

Phil -

There was no St. Louis-applied "pull date" scrawled on '67 frames - that stopped at the end of the '66 model year. Most '67 frame stencils had the date on the same line as the "303196".

John,

I've seen several original '66 stencils that have the date included in the stencil info. In those cases on '66 cars, I assume there would NOT be a scrawled handwritten date as well. Is that you understanding?

Gary

[John H.]

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John,

I've seen several original '66 stencils that have the date included in the stencil info. In those cases on '66 cars, I assume there would NOT be a scrawled handwritten date as well. Is that you understanding?

Gary

Gary -

I don't have any info on that (no "pull date" on late 66's); never understood the "pull date" thing at all - as far as I know, nobody in the plant or in the field kept track of them (which is probably why they stopped doing it for '67).

[Gary B.]

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John,

What I wonder is did they stop doing the hand-written pull date thing in late '66, since the stencil then had the date incorporated as in '67.

Gary

[William G.]

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Greetings,

Any idea as to the percentage of stencil numbers which survived "the test of time"? That is, how many as a percentage are today as visible as those shown on this thread? Mine is pretty much like those shown and assumed when I looked at it that most would today not be as legible as mine. Was I wrong?

Best wishes for the coming year and happy holidays to all.

Bill

[Gerard F.]

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John,

What I wonder is did they stop doing the hand-written pull date thing in late '66, since the stencil then had the date incorporated as in '67.

Gary

Gary,

Since the stencil on my 67 had the whole date to the day, wouldn't that mean that the stencil was redone for each day. Or maybe the date on a 67 frame was a separate stencil done for each day.

Happy Holidays,