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"PartyPooper2012" (PartyPooper2012) 10/28/2020 at 08:55 • Filed to: None

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Any idea why the text here is not leveled? How was this label made? In an earthquake?

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > PartyPooper2012 10/28/2020 at 08:58

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It's proto-spongebob text

pip bip - choose Corrour > PartyPooper2012 10/28/2020 at 08:59

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Shoop > PartyPooper2012 10/28/2020 at 09:00

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It's just there to mock you

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > PartyPooper2012 10/28/2020 at 09:08

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Date: 08/76

That about says it all really.

ttyymmnn > PartyPooper2012 10/28/2020 at 09:09

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I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker > PartyPooper2012 10/28/2020 at 09:11

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From a quick skim, it looks like each instance of each letter is offset from the middle by the same distance. Probably printed with an old letterpress, using a mixed set of dies?

facw > PartyPooper2012 10/28/2020 at 09:15

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Maybe their printer printed in columns, and was malfunctioning?

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > PartyPooper2012 10/28/2020 at 09:19

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Worn out line printer.

haveacarortwoorthree2 > PartyPooper2012 10/28/2020 at 09:21

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It’s from a Ford made in 1976 and claims it meets all safety standards? Clearly it is in the sarcasm font. 

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > PartyPooper2012 10/28/2020 at 09:22

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C learly sarcasm is implied.

My bird IS the word > PartyPooper2012 10/28/2020 at 09:30

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They just don't build em like they used to.

PartyPooper2012 > I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker 10/28/2020 at 09:31

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Interesting... I thought it was typewriter... depending on which row the letters fell, it was higher or lower... but word All has letters on same row, but on label they are different height. So that could not be.

Letter press might work more faster too and would explain shenanigans. 

PartyPooper2012 > haveacarortwoorthree2 10/28/2020 at 09:32

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This is an interesting take... Pinto was around then too... Safety! 

PartyPooper2012 > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available 10/28/2020 at 09:32

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I seent some documents from 1776 and they were written more leveled. 

I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker > PartyPooper2012 10/28/2020 at 09:36

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Typewriter wouldn’t make a lot of sense for scaled production. I think letter press does, since only a few characters would need swapped each stamping.

notsomethingstructural > PartyPooper2012 10/28/2020 at 09:38

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Just a theory, but if you look “this vehicle conforms to” and “manufacturer shown above” are level, it’s only the ones in between that are weird. I think there’s room on the label for 4 lines between the level lines  and they might have typed it that way so you couldn’t tamper with the label and add something on a blank line before, after, or between.

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > PartyPooper2012 10/28/2020 at 09:45

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Well when my car rolled off the assembly line in 2012 it was missing its paint code printed in the proper place. It’s even labeled paint code but there’s no code there. Things happen.

PartyPooper2012 > I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker 10/28/2020 at 09:50

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Yeah. I was just trying to think of different ways to print a label without use of a computer. Actually, I don’t know if they used computers to print shit for cars back then. I would guess they used some sort of printing device, but not computer per se

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > PartyPooper2012 10/28/2020 at 09:51

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Mid-70s quality was truly a race to the bottom.

Surprised the adhesive was strong enough for it even to be in place yet.

PartyPooper2012 > notsomethingstructural 10/28/2020 at 09:51

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i mean it’s certainly possible, but then why not make the label smaller. save some money by using less material. 

I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker > PartyPooper2012 10/28/2020 at 10:01

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Two scenarios, one more likely than the other:

An expensive and cutting edge machine that gets triggered by a weight sensitive switch and automatically swaps stamps for characters to match serialized production, allowing for accurate bookkeeping of individual component source and batched production, resulting in small-scale recalls, reducing cost to repair vehicles after sale

Or

A guy made ten bucks an hour swapping stamps individually, resulting in this mess.

PartyPooper2012 > I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker 10/28/2020 at 10:03

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Yeah... but the sloppiness is consistent. As are all up there. Ps are all mid level and Ls are all below. Couldn’t have been a manual labor. Had to be some sort of machinery

PartyPooper2012 > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish 10/28/2020 at 10:04

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roof liner is holding on nicely. Check out Mercury Comet on BAT. 

PartyPooper2012 > Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer 10/28/2020 at 10:05

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Hey, Boss. What font do you want to use for door label? Times new roman?

No! That shit’s expensive and that car won’t last more than 6 months. Use Sarcastic font 

user314 > PartyPooper2012 10/28/2020 at 10:11

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I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker > PartyPooper2012 10/28/2020 at 10:15

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Hard to guess. It’s too consistent to be manual labor.

My X-type is too a real Jaguar > PartyPooper2012 10/28/2020 at 12:03

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Looks like they used a teletype machine and it dropped a half of line after every space. Those things were a pain to keep calibrated, they either used a daisy wheel or a golf ball. 

notsomethingstructural > PartyPooper2012 10/28/2020 at 12:04

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It might have to be 4 lines for cars with both federal and california emissions? cheaper to do that tha n have 2 labels

GLiddy > PartyPooper2012 10/28/2020 at 12:36

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Probably used a drum printer. High speed spinning drum that is struck on the fly. It’s like the spectacle of a dancing bear. It’s amazing not in that the bear dances well, but instead  because the bear dances at all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_printer

PartyPooper2012 > I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker 10/28/2020 at 14:30

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I just watched how to use letterpress.

Doesn’t seem plausible. You would have to take “text” out every time and change character for VIN number/date/color code etc.

They had to use something else. 

I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker > PartyPooper2012 10/28/2020 at 14:36

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I wonder what I was thinking of. A typewrite style thing is possible, I just can’t figure out how that type of error could be made. 

PartyPooper2012 > I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker 10/28/2020 at 14:51

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Experts are telling me it was done with a typewriter.

I am not convinced since letters A & L both are on same row on keyboard, but that is not to say there were no different keyboards in the past.

I checked Qwery, dvorak and colemak keyboards and still not sure. P & L are on same row on other keyboards.

I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker > PartyPooper2012 10/28/2020 at 15:07

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Why would the different rows matter? I’ve seen two different types of typewriters, one where all the letters are on a spinny disk, like this, nicknamed “daisy wheel”.

Too-rapid operation of this type of typewriter could result in “missed” letters where a wrong finger was pressed or multiple were pressed, but from what I’ve read the most common out of line error was caused by bends in the “fingers” (I don’t know what they’re actually called). I’d think that would result in the neighboring letters on the wheel being offset similarly. I don’t know if orders were standard or not.

Could also have been this style of typewriter:

Where individual “fingers” fly forward at a button press. I’ve played with one of these and they can get caught up in each other if you type too fast, which can result in bends, giving offsets or a reason to change out the individual fingers, or remove them to bend them back perhaps?

This seems more reasonable than my letterpress idea.

PartyPooper2012 > I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker 10/28/2020 at 15:12

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Kudos for using a russian typewriter in example. That must have been it! :P

Yeah. Maybe you’re right. maybe the letter positions on keyboard under fingers is not as important as letter position on fingers clacking against paper. Maybe.

I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker > PartyPooper2012 10/28/2020 at 15:31

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Hah, didn’t even notice that.

No, I don’t think that would matter honestly.

MiniGTI - now with XJ6 > PartyPooper2012 10/28/2020 at 17:25

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Probably done on a line printer that was having a bad day.