Gas Tank Logo

Several years ago there was a very good article in Mustang Monthly pertaining to gas tanks on Mustangs. Bob Perkins showed the readers "the real thing", and one of the little details was the fact that the metal was stamped with a logo of either "U. S. Steel" or "American Stamp Steel" and also possibly a date. The metal was then formed into a tank and this stamped logo showed in random places ( I think) on the top and bottom of the tank. Does anyone know what issue and what year that article was published? OR better yet do any of you have a Ford tank with this stamping still present and good enough to be captured in a photo. I would love to have some more info on this obscure aspect of Mustang production. Thank you for any help!

Thanks, Bo. I would love to get enough of us involved in replicating this stamp, stencil or silkscreen, whatever would be required to at least keep pace with the detail of restoration that the guys with brand "C" or "M" take for granted. I think that those little details are what makes a car great as opposed to good. Thanks for the offer and I am anxious to hear what you find out about the logo stamp.

Thanks, Bo! There are several people interested in this "logo" and determining if it was used on the early Mustang/Shelby tanks. Over the last many years the subject of the U. S. Steel logo on early tanks has come up over and over in discussions among hardcore restoration individuals (dare i say nut cases?). Now that we have a source readilly available and at a moderate cost (25.00 $) many of us would like to add that little "extra" touch to our cars IF if can be documented. My opinion is that the same logo that is being sold for the Chevy crowd is correct for the Ford tanks of the same era (circa 64 - ? ). It is my hope that you can hook up with someone who has an original and we can make a positive determination that the proper logo stamp for our early cars is the same as the one available. I am 90% convinced that it is correct but until we have photographic proof I will wait. Thanks for your help - together all of you on this board can unearth almost impossible to obtain information.

Thank you, Charles - I hope that it turns out to be the same one that is currently available in stencil form. I have looked and looked in my pretty sizeable collection of old MM magazines and simply cannot find the article that shows that logo. I am sure the image was taken of a tank that Bob Perkins had and i am positive that it was published in MM. Stuff such as that makes me question my own memory, sometimes my sanity. Can hardly stand the wait for an image of the tank logo on an early car!

It must be the article I had in mind (or what is left of my mind). Can you scan and post or scan and email the page? Trying to see if the stencil available for the General Motors tank is the same as the logo used on metal used in Ford mustang tanks. Sure appreciate your response.

Dave: Thank you. Have you or others looked at the stencil available from Inline Tube? It looks so much like the ones you have posted. Please check out their website and give your thoughts. I looked last night in the Sept. 91 issue of MM and could not find that photo. Could you please check for sure the issue of MM that contains the article on the Shelby convt. restored by Drew? I am trying to get a really good view of the logo. The image of the Boss tank also looks the same as the one that was used on GM cars. Looks like we could use this stencil on Mustang and Ford tanks and be correct? Does anyone see a difference?

Any more photos of an original?

Dave. do you feel that the marking on the tank in the early Shelby ( the one Drew did) is the genuine article? As you know, my interest is in the 65 - 66 years, and want to use the InLine tube stencil badly, but only if it is correct and that there is no doubt that it is correct. I had hope that it was but have never actually examined that logo. Charles turner has a tank in storage that has the logo as well, and I am waiting for him to post an image. I feel that in 91 when Drew Alkazar was in the restoration business that there was no stencil to replicate the logo and that the tank pictured is in fact the "real deal". Obviously all gas tanks would not have the logo, but enough of them did that perhaps others will join this discussion and maybe check out an old tank and provide us with more pictures. Next we have to work on the date code with I am certain is somewhere in the logo, we just need to figure out how to read it. The guy at Inline told me that when you purchase the stencil they include the appropriate date code with the stencil in the form of seperate little additional stencils. I have a hunch that the sale of the "USS' logo stencil is going to pick up soon. Thanks

Can anyone provide an image of the USS logo on a Mustang gas tank? I am trying to understand what the row of numbers under the date mean and need more examples to examine. Please help if you can.

Still trying to understand the meaning of the characters stamped on the line under the date stamp. More images can be found on the VMF pertaining to this. If anyone has any contacts with someone who worked for USS during the 60s, perhaps you could ask then about this stamping, or if you have any ideas about understanding the markings on these tanks please share them. Thanks