2573 Tag on firewall

[Mark II Seeker]

Matt,

My car has a body tag but is not an A/C car.

[Mark Norris]

Matt,

Same here, mine has a body tag (paint too thick to read it) but never was an AC car.

[jdsnoddy]

Brian:
2897 is a factory air conditioned equipped car; is that correct? And your body tag does not have A/C. So can we assume that the A/C on the body tag has no correlation with being factory equipped with air conditioning? I think so. Please advise. Does anyone know if there was a meaning to the "A/C" on the body tag? And what it designated?
John

[Matt Cashion]

See I was right-- Wrong again

[Mark II Seeker]

Brian:
2897 is a factory air conditioned equipped car; is that correct? And your body tag does not have A/C. So can we assume that the A/C on the body tag has no correlation with being factory equipped with air conditioning? I think so. Please advise. Does anyone know if there was a meaning to the "A/C" on the body tag? And what it designated?
John

John,

My car does not have factory A/C.

[Pat Marshall]

This post is late to the party.

The bodies were manufactured by the Bentley-Mitchell Company of Owasso Michigan. Originally there were two body styles, the A/C version with the nostrils and the non A/C version with no rear fender openings. B/M put body tags on the cars for some unknown internal control reason - the A/C cars were given the tags (although exceptions have been noted). Once nostrils were dropped, the body tags were no longer used (although at least one exception has been noted).

[jdsnoddy]

Thanks for this. And that's why you're the Historian. :-)
V/R,
John