Agree with Tony, it was bare underneath. It was put on first as an equipment guide, etc.. Re the screws, have never seen anything but the flat screw-always Metuchen. Another source besides well liner: coupe and fastback used those screws to anchor the strip over the door and side window, that hold the weatherstrip, Another observation: Those flat screws came as a tech or a regular sheetmetal screw thread. Depending on where they were used. I have both, used of course. Have seen the other screw on a Dearborn tag.
Not to be cynical....imagine a judge asking to see backside of buck tag!! LOL!! Sorry!! with paint underneath, that'll be a 10pt. gig!
+2 on bare underneath. Yelostang, check out the pics in the link I provided regarding the screw use on Metuchen cars. Mine also came as the round screw, not flat.
One other use of the flat screw (which I had forgotten about), was they were also used for the rear valance. Again, they were used interchangeably with the round head screws for this application!
It would be interesting to see if there was any correlation between the rear valance being attached with the same screws as the buck tag. Esoteric I know, but interesting. My rear valance was attached with the same round style screws as the buck tag!
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. My first Pony and my current factory GT '66 Fastback
Most tags I have found were just attached on bare metal and painted over bare metal.. Lots of them are actually "fused" to the panel sometimes.. but I would say that either way would be acceptable. No MCA points off that I know of for this..
Wasn't the buck tag intended as a list of things to be done on the basic weldment before assembly? Seems like as you said it would get painted over
along with engine bay painting (black) as you said. Mine was black on top, bare aluminum under with a little black overspray.
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I agree with ya Slim. You also mentioned another interesting thing about the tag itself. You stated "aluminum", and that's the interesting thing, they were made from aluminum and steel. Mine happens to be made of steel. There's also examples of them being made out of blank '65 style VIN tags!!
__________________ John Wilson
. My first Pony and my current factory GT '66 Fastback
John brings up an interesting note...When Metuchen ran out of tags, they actually used 1965 blanks Dataplates turned around..... I've seen this practice on about three cars over the last 25 years of scrounging through junkyards... It's really cool.. Sometimes they used Mercury tags instead of Ford tags I think Kevin Marti also wrote about this in his book as well... Things on the assembly line never stopped, They just grabbed the next best thing that did the same job..
This is all very interesting to me. When my engine bay was bare metalled you could see the exact position of the buck tag as it was pitted to the shape. Kind of explains the not painted area under the tag, although i suppose water can get trapped between the tag and car and rust that area.
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I've seen this practice on about three cars over the last 25 years of scrounging through junkyards... It's really cool.. Sometimes they used Mercury tags instead of Ford tags
