For the first time today when I was getting ready to restore a 67 'Star Wars' air cleaner I noticed that with two of the air cleaners I have, the BUICK letters are different. One has normal straight up block capital letters and the other has Italic letters with a slant except the " I ". Anybody have an opinion on what is correct from the factory or are they both correct? Never remember seeing the Italic letters on Star Wars air cleaners before. Perhaps the Italic letters were for 67 GS Rivieras with the Star Wars a/c? Opinions welcome
Hi Chuck, The correct letters for the air cleaner are trunk letters. The top air cleaner is the correct one.
Thanks Ed, that is what I thought too. The slanted letters must have been added to the bottom A/C by a previous owner. I have checked close up photos of my three 67 cars and the hood letters are all the normal block letters like on the top A/C in the photo. Not sure what the slanted letters come from?
The hood letters on my '64 are slanted, that's why I was wondering if you had hood letters on the one air cleaner.
Chuck, The more square ones are correct. I looked high and low for replacements and found reproduction trunk letters for mine that are perfect replacements. Also, FYI, if you need a better Trishield emblem for it, the reproduction one that is available is garbage. It is too small and the pin locations are off. It so happens that the Trishield emblem is the same as a 63 or 64 (I think) Electra door panel emblem! I did some research and found that the part number is the same for both applications. Here is a link for the ones I used http://www.ebay.com/itm/66-67-BUICK...ash=item58e45cb50d:g:oaEAAOSwbYZXYwU-&vxp=mtr
I think the mystery is solved. Someone in the past substituted a sent of slanted early 60's letters for the original block letters on one of the 'Star Wars' air cleaners I have. I recently bought a complete set of letters from a forum member and when I looked at them over the weekend they too are slanted, not block letters you find on the 67's. I will soon have two sets of slanted letters for sale and look for a nice set of unslanted block letters. Thanks for the comments guys, this forum is great and full of information when you need it
Try this guy Chuck, not sure which letters he has: http://www.v8buick.com/index.php?th...s-buick-badge-and-filter.322102/#post-2688723
[QUOTE="chucknixon, post: 2689470, member: 44342 I have checked close up photos of my three 67 cars and the hood letters are all the normal block letters like on the top A/C in the photo. Not sure what the slanted letters come from?[/QUOTE] Chuck, the BUICK letters on all your '67 hoods should have the "slanted" letters on them. Are you sure about them having block letters? I've never seen that before.
I don't have two of my three 67's at home right now, one in storage and one in the shop getting new exhaust so I will have to look at them later this week. The Sportwagon does have the slanted letters on it but I installed them since the GS hood I bought did not come with letters.
