robert campbell
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All,
I have posted before on the higher mounting of the “California Special” script on our car before I repainted it. Our right quarter is original and our left was replaced, but both scripts were noticeably higher when I purchased the car in 1988. If you have Paul’s original book there are a bunch of pictures on the back cover. If you spend some time studying them you will see that the cars in the original debut all have the script in a higher position than the cars on the back cover that are pics of cars later. The all white car in the middle with the banner “Mustang GT/CS” on the wall is the most noticeable. I would love to see Paul’s full size pics! If you look in our gallery you will see pics of the holes still noticeable in our trunk and how they would look on the outside of our right quarter panel if drilled back out. I moved our scripts down to the more “traditional” or more excepted location not knowing what I was doing.
At this time I also put on new scripts on our car as the olds ones were in sad shape. I did this in 1989 and thought that I saved the old scripts. I tried to find them a year ago put could not. Recently due to the death of my last remaining parent, my Dad, I had to make more room at our house for stuff. I found the old script.
Below are pics comparing a today “California” script with our old one. Easy to tell which is which. At first glance they look very much the same. But after studying them you will see a noticeable “crowning” or “roundness” to the outer face of the new one. The old one is totally “flat” on the outer face. This is most noticable in the pic of both scripts on the letter "O". The two very close ups are of the top of the letter “C” in California. It is very apparent that the old one is flat and the new one is crowned on the outer face.
I do not know what this means. I would like any and all to look very closely at their scripts and state whether theirs is flat like our old one or rounded. Maybe it is a change over the years and all the cars with original scripts are flat. This has nothing to do with the chrome plating. The metal before plating on the new one I have is crowned.
Or is this one of the early “hand made” scripts discussed in Paul’s first book? Our script was high up. Our car has the recessed reflector and is a January 2, 1968 build car. I am not saying it was at the debut, but was it one of the earliest cars, already down the line and completed, and maybe retrofitted as ALL of the first 14 cars were? None of those first 14 GT/CS cars were ordered as a GT/CS, nor would have the option noted on the Marti report. As our car does not. How many more cars were in the mill and retrofitted before the cars were actually ordered from Ford as a GT/CS after the debut? Cars 14 through 20? Though 30? Who knows. It amazes me that none of those first 14 cars has ever surfaced.
Rob
both:
old:
new:
I have posted before on the higher mounting of the “California Special” script on our car before I repainted it. Our right quarter is original and our left was replaced, but both scripts were noticeably higher when I purchased the car in 1988. If you have Paul’s original book there are a bunch of pictures on the back cover. If you spend some time studying them you will see that the cars in the original debut all have the script in a higher position than the cars on the back cover that are pics of cars later. The all white car in the middle with the banner “Mustang GT/CS” on the wall is the most noticeable. I would love to see Paul’s full size pics! If you look in our gallery you will see pics of the holes still noticeable in our trunk and how they would look on the outside of our right quarter panel if drilled back out. I moved our scripts down to the more “traditional” or more excepted location not knowing what I was doing.
At this time I also put on new scripts on our car as the olds ones were in sad shape. I did this in 1989 and thought that I saved the old scripts. I tried to find them a year ago put could not. Recently due to the death of my last remaining parent, my Dad, I had to make more room at our house for stuff. I found the old script.
Below are pics comparing a today “California” script with our old one. Easy to tell which is which. At first glance they look very much the same. But after studying them you will see a noticeable “crowning” or “roundness” to the outer face of the new one. The old one is totally “flat” on the outer face. This is most noticable in the pic of both scripts on the letter "O". The two very close ups are of the top of the letter “C” in California. It is very apparent that the old one is flat and the new one is crowned on the outer face.
I do not know what this means. I would like any and all to look very closely at their scripts and state whether theirs is flat like our old one or rounded. Maybe it is a change over the years and all the cars with original scripts are flat. This has nothing to do with the chrome plating. The metal before plating on the new one I have is crowned.
Or is this one of the early “hand made” scripts discussed in Paul’s first book? Our script was high up. Our car has the recessed reflector and is a January 2, 1968 build car. I am not saying it was at the debut, but was it one of the earliest cars, already down the line and completed, and maybe retrofitted as ALL of the first 14 cars were? None of those first 14 GT/CS cars were ordered as a GT/CS, nor would have the option noted on the Marti report. As our car does not. How many more cars were in the mill and retrofitted before the cars were actually ordered from Ford as a GT/CS after the debut? Cars 14 through 20? Though 30? Who knows. It amazes me that none of those first 14 cars has ever surfaced.
Rob
both:
![DSCN4226.jpg](http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r36/valmaxi/Rob%20car%20stuff/DSCN4226.jpg)
old:
![DSCN4229.jpg](http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r36/valmaxi/Rob%20car%20stuff/DSCN4229.jpg)
new:
![DSCN4230.jpg](http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r36/valmaxi/Rob%20car%20stuff/DSCN4230.jpg)