Re: Retainers for scripts

Posted by Jim in Boone On 2012/7/21 13:42:53

Long ago I worked in a Buick dealer paint shop, don't remember rubber washers being used at that time.

The fender or trunk lid was drilled to rather tightly fit the retainer which was pressed into the hole from the front or outside of the fender or trunk lid.

When the "script" or "dealer nameplate" was installed the pins on it's reverse were a tight press fit into the retainers.

Doesn't seen there would have been much room for any leakage, but I do seem to remember in some cases the "Dum-Dum" being pressed around the retainer on the inside of the trunk lid or fender after the "script" was installed as an extra precaution against leakage.

Jim