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Okay, I know this is anal, but I bought a repro decal that would have been on the back of the glovebox door. It's the one with a picture of the ignition key with instructions: "To the Owner: This slug should be removed...."

Can anyone tell me where on the glovebox door the decal would have been placed by GM?

I don't know where the decal goes. But wow, your truck is beautiful!
Tuesdays with Morrie obviously paid off!

Thanks, MR. Lang.

Hey Tom,
Nice truck for sure, I'm trying for a twin but in the 3/4-ton variety. What color did you use and what was the brand??
Thanks
Denny Graham
Sandwich, IL

Denny, it's Mariner Blue, and I believe it's a PPG Delstar paint. I didn't do the painting myself.

That's what my 1950 was originally and that's what I'm gonna bring it back to if I ever get to that point. And that was the paint that I was gonna use also, wish I had a good formula for that or paint number.
DG

Denny,

Have you tried calling PPG (the directions are at the bottom of the 1947-1955 Paint Colors Tech Tip). There were two shades/codes for Mariner Blue. I had no problem getting a formula for the later Mariner Blue shade/code (53-55).

Tim

Here's the information from the label:

Delstar (DAR) 10419 Prime
OEM Code: WE5661
GM (N America) Mariner Blue

Now, this is from a small can I bought from the body shop three years after I had the truck painted. I'm using it for touch-up, and it doesn't match the original paint exactly. It's somewhat lighter. This is an acrylic enamel. The truck was painted with the base coat/ clear coat method. I don't have the codes from the original paint job.

Ok guy, thanks. Don't know how I missed that Tim, I've looked at and printed out that chart from your site a dozen times. every time I get closet to getting some body work started I get waylayed. Then when I get back into it I can't find the number. I'm afraid if I buy paint and get side tracked to much time will go by and I'm told that the newer paints really have a limited shelf life.
Well, thank again, this time I'll try and put the numbers where I can find them.
DG

Denny,

Do you have any information or an opinion regarding where the key decal goes?

Tim

Can't say where I saw this, and don't quote me, but I don't think there was one applied to the trucks, I believe they were only used in the cars.
As far as where they were applied, I'd bet that was up to the individual that was sticking it on the door as long as it was in plain sight when you dropped the door.
Denny Graham
Sandwich, IL

Hmmm...another piece for the "Why'd I buy that?" pile.

Thanks, folks.

So where did the dealer that sold it say it went?
Can't say I ever heard of or seen one either.
Mike

P.S. Not everything in the catalogs were on trucks (I could go on for some time about this).

It came from Classic Parts. No mention is made of where it's placed.

Glove Box Key Decal

1947-54 (supposedly) Glove Box Key Decal

Copy cat.

Heck, who cares if it was originally there, go ahead and slap it on. It would impress me.

Yep, I'd agree with Big on that, what the heck, ya already spent the buck and a quarter on it so stick it on the inside of the GB door. And while your at it stick one of those tire pressure sticker in there to. It breaks up the monotomy when ya go lookin for a map and I doubt of anyone but you is ever gonna look inside the box anyway.
Your real problem is gonna be trying to fit one of those chincy cardboard glovebox liners into the hole. Good luck there.
DG

Yeah Tom, I'll bet you can get Denny to build you one of those GB boxes if you ask real nice!

I would be ever so grateful Denny if you would put some dimensions on the photos of the jig you built to form the glove box. My truck came with a gaping hole where the box should be. I don't have anything to measure to build the form. Since I am on a mission to build what I can the glove box is on my menu.

Gee, look what I started!

Now how much was that you wanted to bet Jim????
Neil, there are a bunch of angles that you have to deal with so it would really be difficult to draw that up. I would suggest buying one of the cardboard sleeves for ten or twelve bucks and using that for a pattern. You might luck out and get one that fits the opening the two that I got were two small and wouldn’t go over the flange, other than that the rest of it would have fit behind the dash ok.
I can tell you this, I traced a cardboard template of the opening then made a wood buck from that. I just kept touching it up on the belt sander till it just fit the outside of the flange. You have to make a choice whether you want the staples on the outside or the way they were made originally, stapled from the inside. The later becomes quite difficult unless you have a stapler that will reach in about 10”. The cardboard boxes leave the flange on the sleeve back facing out and this can be stapled with any heavy-duty stapler. The only real difference is that you gain almost an inch the way the factory did it.
Denny Graham
Sandwich, IL

Denny, I've been thinking about buying the cheapy cardboard GB and then using fiberglass to cover the outside to strengthen it. Do you think that might work?

Y'know, you're right, BigChevy. there are two small holes where a small bracket or something was originally, so maybe I'll cover those holes with the sticker. What was that little bracket for, anyway?


I have the cardboard box in already. It was a struggle,for sure. Not so much fitting the box through the opening, but screwing it all together. Like most stuff, the holes didn't quite line up with the flange....you know the drill.

Those two holes in the door are for the bracket to turn off the glove box light. Not like the light vendors sell now. Some place I have an original kit I'll see if I can get some pictures.
Mike

Thanks Denny. I will give that a shot. I looked at your photos again and the price of a new box is looking pretty good. If it fits. Neither of the glove box doors that I have show any trace of a sticker ever being on them.

Here is a photo of the bracket to turn off the glove box light.

My glove box was made out fibreglass .I used the old one as a template put some baseline on the outside of the cardboard layer the fibreglass on and took the cardboard off after painted it black and it has been in there since about 1989 works good

Vaseline not baseline lol

I wonder how many of us keep gloves in the glove box today or for the past 60 years.

I keep my mechanic gloves in their in case I breakdown! I also keep a flag for pictures.

Chris