Fender tag decode-help?

[elacruze]

I never fully decoded the fender tag before, and looking at it I see that what I thought was mechanical damage is actually 3 numbers stamped in the last 3 positions of the top row-very hard to read due to over-striking and age. I believe the first two characters are 2 and 6, the third could be a 1 or 7 (or 4) but runs into the screw hole so it's a crapshoot.
Anybody seen that before?





Looks like UBS/U8 is a light blue metallic racing stripe?!?!!!? I will be somewhat perturbed if I find that to be the case, the tag was supposedly decoded before paint/interior.

[Alaskan_TA]

That looks like an inspectors stamp. To me, it looks like your car was inspected by 861 - whoever that was..........

[elacruze]

That looks like an inspectors stamp. To me, it looks like your car was inspected by 861 - whoever that was..........

Ok, that works.

What about the rest? Blue Racing Stripe? Is that the same as the R/T stripe?

[69CoronetRT]

Anybody seen that before?

That is a typical inspection stamp from a car built at the St. Louis plant. Very common.

[bakerhillpins]

Looks like UBS/U8 is a light blue metallic racing stripe?!?!!!? I will be somewhat perturbed if I find that to be the case, the tag was supposedly decoded before paint/interior.

Silver car with blue interior and a black top. Interesting colors. Sounds like you are returning it to factory specs? Love to see that when it's done.  

I've never seen that U8 before in UBS but I have also never heard of a XP charger coming from the factory with stripes?
The decoder I use (http://www.jimshine.com/tag%20info/68tagdecode.htm) doesn't really have much info on the UBS. I always thought the U in UBS was the upper door panel color and that has always seemed to match the tags I have decoded.  

What are you decoding with?

[elacruze]

I searched the forum and found an old thread with a link to this online decoder-there are a lot more research resources on that site too.
http://www.mymopar.com/index.php?pid=85

The decoder is a little difficult to use, but I've done it a few times and it always comes up the same.

The car never had any evidence I noticed of any stripes, but when I got it in 1980 the blue interior had been replaced with a '70 black interior so maybe they deleted the stripe at that time. I put a black stripe on because I like it, never considering that it could have had one stock because it's not an original R/T. My girlfriend suggested at the time we make the stripe blue...dammit, she was right and I think it would look rockin'. If it's coded for a blue stripe, eventually I'll change it from black-I want the car to look like it did new, but not act like it.

[bakerhillpins]

I'm no expert on this but it would take a LOT of convincing/persuasion for me to believe that the car had a factory stripe in any regard as it's a XP car. But then again stranger things have happened.

I'm kinda leaning towards this at the moment: The U in the U position is possibly for a blue color code since I see B in that position for all the cars with Black interior, W for white, etc. The 8 in the B position would typically mean Stripe Delete on an RT car so maybe just a stamping error? Not totally improbable as the car wouldn't have been coded for a stripe on the build sheet. The mistake would have been they stamped the position on an XP car rather than ignored it. I don't have any tag pics from a stripe delete RT car. The 68 RT Troy sold early last year was a stripe delete IIRC. I wonder if he still has a pic of the tag.

[edit] In 68 UU1 is Light Blue Poly, so U as the code for the upper door panel color is logical. Blue interior isn't all that common on 68s. Ive seen quite a few 69s with blue though.

[elacruze]

Since the interior was swapped out, the only chance for a build sheet was the dash and headliner, neither one produced. We'll never know, although I always thought the car was in original paint and there was no evidence of a stripe. If the tag turns out to be a correct code for a blue stripe, I'll have to run it through photoshop after taking some nice photos when finished.

[elacruze]

Sooo...

Can anybody confirm or absolutely refute this fender tag? I can't find any data on the 'net which says (UBS) 'B'=8 equates to 'bright blue racing stripe' other than the online decoder from mymopar.com.

I talked with Bill and Paul, the car was definitely repainted once.

[A383Wing]

my books say the "8" under the "B" is for buffed paint...this will be found on silver cars only

you have nothing under the "S"...which means you never had a stripe

[elacruze]

my books say the "8" under the "B" is for buffed paint...this will be found on silver cars only

you have nothing under the "S"...which means you never had a stripe

That's what made the most sense to me. I've emailed MyMopar.com to ask what their source of data is-under 'B' they have 8 as a blue stripe, 3 as a Charger Red stripe, 6 as a dark green stripe, 9 as 'special order racing stripe' and the rest 1-0 as 'unknown color racing stripe. This is in addition to the normal codes under 'S' for regular color stripes.

[A383Wing]

well, I say that MyMopar's info is wrong...or something in the translation got turned around

as stated before, you have no digit under the "S" on your tag....which means there never was a stripe

[Troy]

my books say the "8" under the "B" is for buffed paint...this will be found on silver cars only

you have nothing under the "S"...which means you never had a stripe

You need something under the 'S' for a stripe. I always thought that silver was the only color that was buffed from the factory - which is the only reason to have anything under the 'B'.

Troy

[elacruze]

So then the colors they list under 'B' are not stripes but are metallic body colors, requiring buffing. That should have been obvious to me.

[bakerhillpins]

my books say the "8" under the "B" is for buffed paint...this will be found on silver cars only

you have nothing under the "S"...which means you never had a stripe

You need something under the 'S' for a stripe. I always thought that silver was the only color that was buffed from the factory - which is the only reason to have anything under the 'B'.

Troy

Excellent, learn something new every day! Thanks guys    Had that backwards in my notes.. Sorry