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Good info.

And the colors are just leftover stuff from the paint room right?

Tav



This is what many people believe.

One of the stories is that if the inspection mark was applied at the factory and not by the vendor that was assembling the part.........the factory inspection make could only be a color that was used that model year and also at that plant. For example there was a "lime light" paint dab on my RT front brake caliber. That was a color that was used in Hamtramck in 1970......you would not see a lime light inspection mark in 1968.....that color was not avaliable.

THIS IS ONLY A THOUGHT AND IS NOT GOSPEL.



That was my thinking, but I have seen too many examples that refute that theory.

The black A12 Superbee that I finished this spring had several lime green paint marks on the front end components. And this was a positively original car that had never been disassembled until I took it apart. The only thing I could possibly attribut this to is the fact that the A12's are known to have been built well into the 69 model year and maybe some of this hi impact paint was available in anticipation of the 70 model year.

Here is a pic of the original ball joint-clearly showing the lime green mark.




MB