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69 Zee

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Original Horns #289 & 290 with odd dates or not ?
« on: September 17, 2014, 02:52:35 PM »
Hey all,

Here again with another unique and confusing date.  I was bouncing around and ran across two Delco Remy horns with odd dates.   They show as a #289 dated 1C9 and #290 dated 2C9.

I thought these horns were dated as YR then MTH then Wk and since there's not 9 weeks in a month what are these ?   Are these '71 & '72 and did Delco Remy change their stamping procedures after '69 ?   Or are these '69's and the YR and WK are backwards ? and if that's the case could that of happened 1 week apart from one another.

Also I found an old thread over on Camaro.net from 2006.  A gentleman there was listing his horn dates and also listed that he had a '69 dated 1C9.

Has anyone else ever heard of this happening or seen ?  I posted a pic that shows the "1C9" date, a little hard to see.


Thanks for any input
Darrell
'69 Camaro Z/28: 03B NOR X77 Dusk Blue, white top, all orig, Under construction
'69 Firebird all original 350 all power w/ac
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Re: Original Horns #289 & 290 with odd dates or not ?
« Reply #1 on: September 17, 2014, 08:14:03 PM »
Delco Remy dated 1C9.  Interesting enough, I contacted Gary at The Horn Works.  He stated they are a backwards date and he's seem them before.  Didn't know that.
Darrell
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Re: Original Horns #289 & 290 with odd dates or not ?
« Reply #2 on: September 17, 2014, 11:26:15 PM »
Your discussion and photos of the horns got me off my butt to go look at mine.. :)   I removed them a couple of years ago, when disassembling the front clip for clean up, and didn't *see* any numbers, although they appeared to be original...  so down to the basement I went, finally found the right box..  dug out the horns and with a little cleaning, identified mine as #289 (date 9H3), and #290 (date 9H3).   I think that date would be 3 August 69 ;  my car is an O9C (18Sep69)...   I got photos also which be added to my already large photo file.. :)

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Re: Original Horns #289 & 290 with odd dates or not ?
« Reply #3 on: September 18, 2014, 03:46:07 PM »
New setup guy on the date stamper. It happens....
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Re: Original Horns #289 & 290 with odd dates or not ?
« Reply #4 on: September 18, 2014, 04:26:05 PM »
New setup guy on the date stamper. It happens....
Oh Good,  I was hoping for good news.  Thanks Kurt  )
Darrell
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Re: Original Horns #289 & 290 with odd dates or not ?
« Reply #5 on: September 18, 2014, 04:33:46 PM »
Your discussion and photos of the horns got me off my butt to go look at mine.. :)   I removed them a couple of years ago, when disassembling the front clip for clean up, and didn't *see* any numbers, although they appeared to be original...  so down to the basement I went, finally found the right box..  dug out the horns and with a little cleaning, identified mine as #289 (date 9H3), and #290 (date 9H3).   I think that date would be 3 August 69 ;  my car is an O9C (18Sep69)...   I got photos also which be added to my already large photo file.. :)

Gary W
Gary,  Sounds like you have the correct dated horns as well to your 09C.  :)   The backwards date threw me off and they didn't appear to be repro's.  As Kurt stated.. sounds like a new guy on the job or it was Friday afternoon close to quitting time..lol

Hey and BTW... at least you know where your horns are now..lol  
Darrell
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Re: Original Horns #289 & 290 with odd dates or not ?
« Reply #6 on: September 21, 2014, 12:56:38 AM »
My 06A Z28 has 9-B-4 ( "289" horn) and 2-C-9 ( "290" horn).
 I have owned the car since 74, I thought the 290" might have been changed or a warranty deal, Im not so sure now.

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Re: Original Horns #289 & 290 with odd dates or not ?
« Reply #7 on: September 21, 2014, 06:50:11 PM »
My 06A Z28 has 9-B-4 ( "289" horn) and 2-C-9 ( "290" horn).
 I have owned the car since 74, I thought the 290" might have been changed or a warranty deal, Im not so sure now.
rszmjt,   From what I've been seeing,  there were some original "289" and "290" with backwards stamps.  Looks like your #290 "2 C 9" was stamped with the same set-up as mine.  Mine also appear original to the rest of my car.  So I'd say your all good  :)
Darrell
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Re: Original Horns #289 & 290 with odd dates or not ?
« Reply #8 on: September 22, 2014, 01:11:19 AM »
It seems to be a limited production time window.
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Re: Original Horns #289 & 290 with odd dates or not ?
« Reply #9 on: September 11, 2015, 12:31:34 AM »
Guys-

I know this thread is old, but I just came upon it while researching the horns on my 69z (05A build).  I also have a #290 horn with a date code of "2C9".  I was confused because the other horn (#289) has the date in the expected format: "9D1".  It's good to know others have seen this as well.

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Re: Original Horns #289 & 290 with odd dates or not ?
« Reply #10 on: October 04, 2015, 12:17:27 AM »
BM2

My 04C Z has both horns (289 & 290) with 1 C 9 date stamps. Both original to the car.

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Re: Original Horns #289 & 290 with odd dates or not ?
« Reply #11 on: October 04, 2015, 12:44:12 AM »
This thread made me curious enough to take a look
06A- third week 
289 - 9D4
290 - 9E?? - number is stamped into the raised letter
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