Confused??? I'm seeing orange/blue/yellow. Green?? added orange stripe??

Nope, no one added that stripe....it is exactly the way she left the plant.

Dan

See the green mark on the right side of the photo. Ours had something similar but was unsure it was supposed to be there till I saw Grady's photo.

We could not make much of that green mark. After thinking about laying under the car taking that photo, the green mark and orange stripe are forward.

Mike

Good stuff Mike and Grady. Thanks for posting. This should solve the drive shaft striping for 69 BB MT (Muncie). Grady, those stripes are crisp and clear!!!

Yes, thanx to all. My comment was how a BY code on the buildsheet ended up with orange/blue/yellow with a green daub ahead of it?

One of our local guys who worked at the Chevy plant in Cleveland where they did make drive shafts suggested the third stripe may have indicated what shift made the part. I wouldn't say that is cast in stone yet, but since other GM parts had similar indications, it may be right.

Based on my experience with 70 Chevelles I have always interpreted the orange stripe to confirming that it was balanced. I see this color all the time on 70 shafts and the third (or sometimes 4th) stripe is most often orange. I say 4th because it was common for Kansas City shafts to repeat one of the two colors such as pink blue pink. The orange stripe is often much further away from the other stripes as well.

Phenomenal resto Rick. Thanks for all the posts. You're frame/suspension detail work is second to none IMO. A couple of those pics of the caliper/control arm areas are pure artwork.

----As long as we are talking about striped driveshafts, please educate me. I see so many driveshaft stripes done so neatly on restored shafts. Usually taped off and near perfect. This isn't what I remember at all. Am I right thinking the stripes are basically slopped on with, most likely, a brush?...….Bill S