Author Topic: Firewall tag--bare aluminum, painted black, or painted silver?  (Read 260 times)

Offline Brian

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Trying to determine what is correct for the cars built at different plants.  Post where your car was built and how the firewall tag was finished--was it bare aluminum, painted silver, painted black or something else. 
  Mine was built in Flint and was either silver or bare aluminum--I can't remember which and am going by a picture of the car when I got it,  I painted it black with the firewall when I restored the car and took it back to bare aluminum now trying to make it more correct.

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Re: Firewall tag--bare aluminum, painted black, or painted silver?
« Reply #1 on: March 16, 2010, 10:12:51 AM »
Maybe this will help.  Go to www.442bro.com and click on ACC CODES,  this web site has great info on 65 442's,  some info can be applied to 65 GS's.

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Re: Firewall tag--bare aluminum, painted black, or painted silver?
« Reply #2 on: March 16, 2010, 10:36:45 AM »
I looked there and nothing about the finish on the tags, and nothing about the Buick plants other than Freemont. 

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Re: Firewall tag--bare aluminum, painted black, or painted silver?
« Reply #3 on: March 16, 2010, 10:45:04 AM »
This was located under ACC CODES, I just copied and pasted it.

Fremont tags were not painted, so you can conclude that they were riveted in place after the car was built. 


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Re: Firewall tag--bare aluminum, painted black, or painted silver?
« Reply #4 on: March 16, 2010, 03:18:09 PM »
My 65 GS conv. was built the 2nd wk. of feb. in Flint. From my pic. in 1969, it was bare alum.

Al
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Re: Firewall tag--bare aluminum, painted black, or painted silver?
« Reply #5 on: March 17, 2010, 06:38:41 PM »
My 65 GS conv was built in Baltimore in May 65.  The tag is painted black.

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Re: Firewall tag--bare aluminum, painted black, or painted silver?
« Reply #6 on: March 18, 2010, 09:03:18 AM »
my 65 GS Conv conv was built 4th week of January in Flint - tag is bare aluminum

Rhett
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