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Old Sep 29, 2020 | 03:24 AM
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Anyone else have a signature on their truck? Is this from the factory?

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That's an inspector's signoff. Most vehicles back then have something like that on them somewhere, sometimes on several components.
 
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They've been doing that for decades.

My parents had a 1990 Suburban they finally sold about 5 years ago, so it was 25 years old. About 5 years before that my dad and I had most of the rear interior out patching body leaks, and several of the panels had inspector's signoffs on them, very similar to your picture. Turned out it was an early build 1990, because the dates all said 10/89.

So yeah, definitely an inspector's signoff.
 
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They've been doing that for decades.

My parents had a 1990 Suburban they finally sold about 5 years ago, so it was 25 years old. About 5 years before that my dad and I had most of the rear interior out patching body leaks, and several of the panels had inspector's signoffs on them, very similar to your picture. Turned out it was an early build 1990, because the dates all said 10/89.

So yeah, definitely an inspector's signoff.
It's just cool I have owned over twenty vehicles and this is the first one I've run into. I've formally worked in the automotive industry and I hope some of the drawings I saw there are deep under the paint.
 
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