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BULLITT65

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Re: PTB stamps backwards P meaning?
« Reply #15 on: April 03, 2016, 11:27:32 PM »
At first it looks like a backwards P. Looking closely I was thinking a double stamp. The first one they got the left side of the P, and then re-stamped lower and only got the loop ? It looks like a raised bump may have prevented the first P ?
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Re: PTB stamps backwards P meaning?
« Reply #16 on: April 04, 2016, 01:34:09 AM »
If you enlarge the photo and look at the lower loop there is evidence of the top half of a "B" being cut off.  Look at the bottom loop at the point of where the top loop would have joined the bottom loop.....the arc of the loop is not very smooth, it is rather irregular like the top loop has been trimmed off there.  It also appears that the top part of the upper loop has been trimmed off at the upright....there is a bump on the left of the upright but the right side is fairly flat.
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Re: PTB stamps backwards P meaning?
« Reply #17 on: April 04, 2016, 02:16:34 AM »
Here's another.  Page 4 near the bottom. http://www.camaros.org/forum/index.php?topic=10034.45

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Re: PTB stamps backwards P meaning?
« Reply #18 on: April 04, 2016, 02:28:59 AM »

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Re: PTB stamps backwards P meaning?
« Reply #19 on: April 04, 2016, 03:39:12 AM »
Here's another.  Page 4 near the bottom. http://www.camaros.org/forum/index.php?topic=10034.45

Is this the one you are referencing?   If the stamp company screwed up and produced the 'P' stamp backwards, it would/should have been caught very quickly I'd think once used...  :)
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Re: PTB stamps backwards P meaning?
« Reply #20 on: April 04, 2016, 10:58:17 AM »
Yes!  Maybe it was the Norwood  fisher employee "John doe's" calling card. "Yes I was here and put on this groovy stamp!"  Haha 😎

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Re: PTB stamps backwards P meaning?
« Reply #21 on: April 04, 2016, 11:40:57 AM »
Yes!  Maybe it was the Norwood  fisher employee "John doe's" calling card. "Yes I was here and put on this groovy stamp!"  Haha 😎
That could have been the same guy who wrote he was here during WW2 and Korea and later landed a job at Chevy during the '60's.  8)

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Re: PTB stamps backwards P meaning?
« Reply #22 on: April 06, 2016, 03:33:15 AM »
Another possibility: They need a P and so modify a B into a P, but screw it up.
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Re: PTB stamps backwards P meaning?
« Reply #23 on: April 06, 2016, 11:20:12 AM »
On these cars with the backwards P's do both sides have the same stamp?  Inspections were supposed to be done by two teams one on each side of the car as I understand it each with their own stamps.  If both stamps are the same it might mean something, if only one side is backwards its probably a custom made or repaired stamp.
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Re: PTB stamps backwards P meaning?
« Reply #24 on: April 08, 2016, 02:11:03 AM »
There is another PTB on the passenger side and the p is correct there.  Drivers is backwards