Decal in the trunk

Hi..

I couldn't pick any better forum for this question..so here goes!

I want to put a new 'jack up the car' decal on my inner trunk lid.
('72 Skylark Custom)

The old one (maybe original) is in tough shape.

Question is: Which inner trunk panel does it go on.

There are five indentations on the upper, inner trunk lid.

The car now has the sticker on the outermost left indentation.

The service manual shows it going on the 2nd-in-from-the-left indentation (that's what the pic looks like to me!)

So where are your original stickers in the trunk..let's take a poll!

In case it matters, this was a Flint car.

Thanks..

Stanley

PS..any ideas what will take the old sticker off, but not the paint. The adhesive or paste in there pretty tight...

 

I really wouldn't be too concerned about this Stanley!

Line workers probably just stuck it in a general area. Sometimes here, and sometimes there. Joe would put it here, and Pete would put it there. Human nature.

Don't lose sleep over this one :Smarty:

 

Here's where mine is on the GSX. As you can tell, it's original.

 

Mine was built in Flint, in November 1969. The jacking instruction decal was in the upper right corner of my original trunk lid, right over the spare tire. Logically, that's the place it should go, to my mind- your head is right there when you pop the trunk to get the spare in the first place...but who really knows? Like Marco said, there are probably several different "factory" locations for the decal.


Ever jack your car up with that bumper jack?:eek2: I did once. ONCE.

 

Yeah it bends the hell out of the bumper. Learned the hard way:gt:

 

I had to use the bumperjack on the 225 quite a few times until I got a floor jack. Scary stuff, especially when the ground isn't completly level!!

 

Correct jacking instruction placement

There was a thread about factory correct placement of that decal a while back on this board or maybe somewhere else. I'll paraphrase --

:Smarty:
Stay out partying till 5:00 am the night before installation

Get up and start working at 8:00 am

Catch a 20 minute nap around 10:00 am

Go out to parking lot at lunch and drink 4 beers and/or smoke a joint

You're now ready to install the decal. Open the trunk, run down the side of the car to simulate assembly line speed, and slap that sucker in there.

This is the precise assembly procedure used in production.

 

Re: Correct jacking instruction placement

hahaha!!
:TU:

 

Don't forget to have a smoke in your mouth when you do this.