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Sorry for my inability to communicate my thoughts, likely my writing skills have gotten in the way. Let us remove the hoods from this discussion my earlier comments were made before I had confirmed that the ones found on the trunk lide were below the original exterior color. Though marked...

Yes unfortunately the plant designer that was redrawing the plant for us choose to stop. Always wondered if the map that Ford gave to visitors (have never seen the inside of the map) really showed the layout or if it was just a generic - here's how we build a car. There was a copy of the map...

Every "81" (Ford of Canada not cars sent to western Canada) I've seen was built at Dearborn building them in San Jose with its small (in comparison) production ability. And no there was no "18" in 68

Second rotation number?? If under the paint it could have been the first rotation number (for the body and trim part of the assembly) But its a possibility Would suggest that we sould find a similar number at the front of the car and we should have seen many more examples rather than it being...

They didn't seem to have any problems with all the versions and different parts used for different sorts of cars. In general that is what the computers job was - to make sure all the parts were available before the build was started. This according to plant managers of the time I know nothing...

But since there was no difference between a Calif Special going to 71 and ones going to 72 no reason to identify them in this way IMHO Maybe this will put an end to that theory. Another 68 San Jose built car - non-Calif Special vehicle. There was no DSO identified by the number "10" :) By...

Has the car ever been repainted? If so maybe they just painted over the mark and the original paint when doing this. As I reported we have pictures of other San Jose cars (other years) that had similar marks over the paint, No reason to mark specific trunk lid for specific districts. But the...

Its not an inspection mark from what we've seen and not specific to Cal Specials. Very few of the cars had such markings on the trunk lid and the hood (two places similar marks have been found) There purpose is know at this time (plant workers have been asked). Was this under the original paint...

Should be possible. I'm assuming that you want the cast ones not the decal/insert style. Did realize that that dealership was around that long. While we are at it (those in the South state) I could really use some Dana Chevrolet (yes I know ;) lic plate frames also, will say Long Beach on them...

Majority is just internal coding that the company that provided the seat frames and springs used. Just another job that was subcontracted out by Ford.

Know a number of people who have built cars in their homes. And in decent neighborhoods in town not out in the country. One guy down the street from my parents home where I grew up had an altered in his living room

Would suggest that they were handled similar to what was done with the Shelbys at San Jose. Cars were built under a group DSO this would not mean that the car were all built as a group (one after another) especially during the body and trim portion (first "half") of the process. Since the...

Understand... just a reference to what we have all done in the past.... mostly a quick dismissal that "there were no convertibles" ;) As for the other possibilities agree with "Coberly Ford", and "Galpin Ford" being possibilities by really doubt the Mel Burns since this would not be a...

Since we dismissed the possibility from the beginning I believe we missed any chance of collecting the information for the possibility. Been through the archives in Sacramento a couple of times checking old newspaper ads of the era have have not found a mention of convertibles yet. Not that...

Generally no. No reason for Dealers to do this and normally none of them (the changes) were related to warranty issues. Now if the Dealer promotion included something like non-RPO paint colors of something that they wanted the factory to do that was not a regular option and required a special...

Hoping to find older ones ;) but thanks. Yes I realize the none factory thing but that hasn't hurt a number of other specials out there as part of the history. Big difference in if they were built by the owners or a dealer IMHO Also .... they are not really clones :) since Ford didn't build...

Casey I know this is an older post but I collect such things. What you found is one of many paint inspector marks that would have been installed on your car at the factory. Once person (well most of the time) in one part of the plant would inspect the uni-body while another person in another...

I was referring to 68 convertibles that have had all the CS stuff added to them. I am interested in finding those that have been around for a long time (I remember them as early as 72-3) I believe that there may have been a dealer or two that built and sold. If I can find a number of them, run...

Ok let me shake things up a little :grin: Does any one know of any CS "convertibles" At one time there was a handful of them around locally and over time they have disappeared. Though I should have collected the details from these cars I didn't and because of that I can't answer a couple of...

Looks like possibly the servo part of an aftermarket cruise control. Where does the end of the cable or hose go to on the right?