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When i got my 66dart, on the passenger side fender-well there is a little pouch that had a card with the origonal owner name adress ect. I was curios as me and my father (whose been round awhile) had never seen one. How rare are theese? How many people have them? Does anybody recall if this was a standard procedure, special order only, or did everybody get one fron the dealer and are just easy to lose?
 
I got on my 68 barracuda, but not a fender pouch. The cars instructions manual has a pouch where the card sits on the back inside cover. I believe they where standard procedure for service purposes. It's not often where a car still has the certi-card.
 
In 65 they were left in the glove box; in 66 they were all placed in the holder mounted on the passenger inner fender.
 
My 66 Cuda had the Certi card with the ticker tape of the owners name and address in the holder on the fender and the service placard on the glove box door.
 
as i recall the certi-card program, it was a chrysler factory program used to track warranty work. the car was issued to the original purchaser of the car and when the car owner brought the car in for warranty work, the service dept. would run the card through an inked "roller" device that printed all the information stamped on the card directly onto the service order. the roller device looked like the original credit card mechanical printer that stores used to use. this card was suppose to track warranty work and ensure that only the original owner who was eligible for warranty repairs got the warranty credit.

i believe chrysler used the certi-card system through the end of the 1980's at which time more and more auto repair and warranty work were being tracked on computers.
 
swing69 said:
my 65 service card is riveted to the door of the glovebox.
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That's not the Certi-Card. The Certi-Card was an embossed card the size of a credit card, that could be run through a credit card receipt machine (you know, with carbons -- remember those?). It was a "hi tech" way of recording the owner information when you went to the dealer for service. They were kept in a plastic pocket which was snapped into the inner fender with plastic pins, near the battery. Because they were loose objects, and because they had the original owner's name and address information on them, they were almost always removed or discarded when the car was sold. If you bought a car from the original owner, it might be with the paperwork (mine was).
 
65 Dartman said:
In 65 they were left in the glove box; in 66 they were all placed in the holder mounted on the passenger inner fender

Thats really cool to know...dont know why but i think that kind of stuff is interesting. :burnout:
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jimharvard said:
as i recall the certi-card program, it was a chrysler factory program used to track warranty work. the car was issued to the original purchaser of the car and when the car owner brought the car in for warranty work, the service dept. would run the card through an inked "roller" device that printed all the information stamped on the card directly onto the service order. the roller device looked like the original credit card mechanical printer that stores used to use. this card was suppose to track warranty work and ensure that only the original owner who was eligible for warranty repairs got the warranty credit.

i believe chrysler used the certi-card system through the end of the 1980's at which time more and more auto repair and warranty work were being tracked on computers.
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Thats fairly clever...i figured it was insurance/warrenty related...kind of your "chrysler copy" to keep in your wallet.

Mine said chysler all over it (makes sence) and came in a doge, did they ever do anything fancy with them (or extra) for higher end models? Couldent have someone's dart card look just like an imperials could you? Where they all just "chrysler"
 
My 66 Dart GT still has the original certicard in the pouch on the passenger side inner fender.

I also have the original build sheet.
 
Mine is riveted to the driver's fender right about the battery on my 67 Ratfish Fastback.
 
I have the card in the pocket on the passenger side of my 66 cuda. I also have the original hand written buyers order, owners manual etc.
 
Here are a couple of pictures of the CertiCard. One is from My 1966 Barracuda and it shows some stamped info with an open area below. The second one is from my Dad's 1966 Barracuda.

You can see he has his info added to the card with embossed tape that has the Pentastar logo in it. I guess that was an early way of preventing warranty tampering by adding info with another label maker of the day. I'm guessing 12-19-66 was the day he purchased the car. Marlborough was where he was living when he bought it as there was no Plymouth Dealership in that town.
 

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I don't think any of the holders were riveted from the factory. The certicard holder was one piece that folded onto itself it had clips molded on it that pushed through pre-drilled holes in the inner fenderwells. in 68 it came out of the engine compartment and went in the glove box in a plastic sleeve with the owners manual.

here is a repop holder but factory one looks exactly like this.
http://www.megapartsusa.com/proddetail.asp?prod=124-GCH10

here is a good info link about them.
http://www.mmcdetroit.com/Certicards/
 
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