Has anyone every seen this before. "Happy Birthday Jim!"

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TMH

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I recently purchased an 87 GN with 11k miles from the original owner. The car is in pristine condition. Still has the factory tires and original paint. Besides a few oil changes and one factory recall repair, no other work has been performed to this car. My mechanic and I put it on a lift to inspect the undercarriage. We noticed hand written notes on the frame above the transmission. You can clearly see Happy Birthday Jim. The other wording is directly under the transmission so we were not able to make out what it says. This can only be done with the transmission out of the car. The previous owner who I speak with regularly is adamant that the transmission was never removed from the car since he owned it brand new from the factory.

I'm curious to know if anyone has ever seen this before? Have assembly line workers ever been known to do something like this or could this be one of one? I'm tempted to have the transmission pulled to see what else was written. Any thoughts?

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ELCAM

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Guessing that was done at the Fisher body plant or by the folks that loaded the body shells on rail cars. No one at the assembly plant probably saw it.
 

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"I recently purchased an 87 GN with 11k miles from the original owner."

man, smh..... lol i had more of a smart @$$ comment for getting such a find. anyway welcome, i doubt that's a thing of significance. HOWEVER! if you want to know more its obvious someone upline wanted to send someone downline a msg on a shift with some deep connection. (my reply is coming out all screwed up)

do this go thru the #s on that car to certify where it was assembled and contact that local news outlet(s) and tell em your story and would hope to find the 1s involved in that msg anf get their story. having turned teen in that era imo i would have doubts anyone over 30 would do something like that in 86'. let us know, thats a hell of a story
 
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seeing the title,thought it was 64nailhead's birthday..
that's cool.i had a manager that said in his early gm dealership days he had come across a lug nut hanging from a string with a note asking how long did it take to find me..
 
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Old school military drew Kilroy Was Here all over the place in WWII. If I remember right it started as a Navy Submarine or Ship inspector that just left that as his good to go sign on everything he checked.

Modern military now we just draw dicks on everything, started in the early 2000's at some point. Behind aircraft panels randomly, a few part of the random graffiti where other troops have been, on bombs and other ordnance going out to send some turds into the land of 72 Virgins. Can't say I didn't leave a few signature drawings from my time in Iraq and several other places. I'm sure there's a few cultures as well as even people here confused as hell.🤣
 
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I wouldn't pull it apart unless it was going to be modified or repaired. Not with 11k miles on it. Leave it as is. Whatever the message was, it wasn't for you or the original owner, anyway, and there wasn't time enough to leave a cryptic map to a buried treasure. :) We'll probably never know for sure.
 
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Old school military drew Kilroy Was Here all over the place in WWII. If I remember right it started as a Navy Submarine or Ship inspector that just left that as his good to go sign on everything he checked.

Modern military now we just draw dicks on everything, started in the early 2000's at some point. Behind aircraft panels randomly, a few part of the random graffiti where other troops have been, on bombs and other ordnance going out to send some turds into the land of 72 Virgins. Can't say I didn't leave a few signature drawings from my time in Iraq and several other places. I'm sure there's a few cultures as well as even people here confused as hell.🤣
In 2009 at an outpost near Baghdad Island we had a fellow NCO drew a large circus parade of dicks inspired by the battalion command staff. It went around the whole tower. The CSM saw it, thought it was funny until he saw he was one of the clowns. Made us paint over it all.
 
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In 2009 at an outpost near Baghdad Island we had a fellow NCO drew a large circus parade of dicks inspired by the battalion command staff. It went around the whole tower. The CSM saw it, thought it was funny until he saw he was one of the clowns. Made us paint over it all.
No one appreciates fine art.

We drew in a nice 4ft one in the graffiti on the plywood ceiling of the old PAX Terminal at Al Udied, the female Cpt. that was sitting there watching us thought it was pretty funny and appreciated it when we got finished. 🤣
 
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