Silly question but does anyone else have a date written in marker on the inside front edge of their hood? Mine has "5-19-04 #37" written via hand (not etched, etc). Maybe "UAW Bubba" decided to "personalize" mine...not sure...?! Anyone else?

Come'on...you expected to see "flames" done in magic markers, huh!?


StatueMan
2005 Inferno Red Magnum RT
2005 Blaze Red Crossfire Limited Roadster

 

Line workers put all sorts of marks on cars as they go down the line. Chalk marks, dabs of paint, dots on wheels (balance points) etc. People who are really **** with restoring cars try to replicate all this stuff. As for your car maybe on that date 37 cars had something put on wrong and they pulled them off the end of the line to fix it, or they ran out of something temporarily and put a hold on them. Best story/legend ever was back in the old holerith card days and I think at a GM plant. A worker dropped the box and not knowing the significance of order loaded them back in the box and fed them into the reader. Cars with red seats, blue dashboards, green fenders flowed off the line. They didn't stop the line they just let it run and they fixed them all in the fix-it lot where they do all the glitches. The fix-it lot is real, factories run into all sorts of problems and they really don't want to stop the line.

 

Sounds reasonable. Thanks. I once had a door rattle in a 1979 Mercury Zephyr...when the mechanics took the door panel off there was a soda bottle inside. UAW Bubba strikes again. I've heard the legend of the car with Aspen letters on one side, Volare on the other...true? I haven't a clue...but feces occurs.
I'd been happier if they'd have done it in Gothic...

 

Uhhh, slight correction StatueMan. That would be a CAW Bubba...

 

Were Zephyr's made up north? That'd be "CAW Hoser, eh?!"
No doubt the bottle was a Molson!

 

The zephyrs weren't made in Canada, but the LX cars are.

 

I can't speak for the Zephyr either...and I'm not sure any late 70s early 80s car could really be called "assembled"...they fell apart faster than the Cardinals. The good thing about the car was that it was light and had a 302 V-8...a good engine for that time and car.
Magnum RT shows an assemply point of Brampton, Ont....so CAW would be appropriate for them... Let's see assembled in Canada, engine from Mexico, transmission from the US... but I doubt the seats are "fine Corinthian leather" (said in my best Ricardo Montalban accent)
I'm pretty happy with my RT...despite CAW Bubba leaving his/her mark.

 

The marker isn't from the assembly line, it's from the tech who did the PDI. A lot of guys like to leave their mark after they have done the inspection (saves your azz sometimes). It isn't required and most guys wouldn't want somebody writing on their car (I wouldn't).

 

That makes sense as well. I wish they'd just leave a little slip of paper in there like Inspector 73 with Fruit of the Loom.