Original Horns #289 & 290 with odd dates or not ?

[69 Zee]

Hey all,

Here again with another unique and confusing date.  I was bouncing around and ran across two Delco Remy horns with odd dates.   They show as a #289 dated 1C9 and #290 dated 2C9.

I thought these horns were dated as YR then MTH then Wk and since there's not 9 weeks in a month what are these ?   Are these '71 & '72 and did Delco Remy change their stamping procedures after '69 ?   Or are these '69's and the YR and WK are backwards ? and if that's the case could that of happened 1 week apart from one another.

Also I found an old thread over on Camaro.net from 2006.  A gentleman there was listing his horn dates and also listed that he had a '69 dated 1C9.

Has anyone else ever heard of this happening or seen ?  I posted a pic that shows the "1C9" date, a little hard to see.


Thanks for any input

[69 Zee]

Delco Remy dated 1C9.  Interesting enough, I contacted Gary at The Horn Works.  He stated they are a backwards date and he's seem them before.  Didn't know that.

[69Z28-RS]

Your discussion and photos of the horns got me off my butt to go look at mine..    I removed them a couple of years ago, when disassembling the front clip for clean up, and didn't *see* any numbers, although they appeared to be original...  so down to the basement I went, finally found the right box..  dug out the horns and with a little cleaning, identified mine as #289 (date 9H3), and #290 (date 9H3).   I think that date would be 3 August 69 ;  my car is an O9C (18Sep69)...   I got photos also which be added to my already large photo file..

Gary W

[KurtS]

New setup guy on the date stamper. It happens....

[69 Zee]

New setup guy on the date stamper. It happens....

Oh Good,  I was hoping for good news.  Thanks Kurt  )

[69 Zee]

Your discussion and photos of the horns got me off my butt to go look at mine..   I removed them a couple of years ago, when disassembling the front clip for clean up, and didn't *see* any numbers, although they appeared to be original...  so down to the basement I went, finally found the right box..  dug out the horns and with a little cleaning, identified mine as #289 (date 9H3), and #290 (date 9H3).   I think that date would be 3 August 69 ;  my car is an O9C (18Sep69)...   I got photos also which be added to my already large photo file..

Gary W

Gary,  Sounds like you have the correct dated horns as well to your 09C.     The backwards date threw me off and they didn't appear to be repro's.  As Kurt stated.. sounds like a new guy on the job or it was Friday afternoon close to quitting time..lol

Hey and BTW... at least you know where your horns are now..lol  

[rszmjt]

My 06A Z28 has 9-B-4 ( "289" horn) and 2-C-9 ( "290" horn).
 I have owned the car since 74, I thought the 290" might have been changed or a warranty deal, Im not so sure now.

[69 Zee]

My 06A Z28 has 9-B-4 ( "289" horn) and 2-C-9 ( "290" horn).
 I have owned the car since 74, I thought the 290" might have been changed or a warranty deal, Im not so sure now.

rszmjt,   From what I've been seeing,  there were some original "289" and "290" with backwards stamps.  Looks like your #290 "2 C 9" was stamped with the same set-up as mine.  Mine also appear original to the rest of my car.  So I'd say your all good 

[KurtS]

It seems to be a limited production time window.

[BM2]

Guys-

I know this thread is old, but I just came upon it while researching the horns on my 69z (05A build).  I also have a #290 horn with a date code of "2C9".  I was confused because the other horn (#289) has the date in the expected format: "9D1".  It's good to know others have seen this as well.

[FortLangleyBC]

BM2

My 04C Z has both horns (289 & 290) with 1 C 9 date stamps. Both original to the car.

Paul

[crobjones2]

This thread made me curious enough to take a look
06A- third week 
289 - 9D4
290 - 9E?? - number is stamped into the raised letter