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I'm old enough to remember when Indy's didn't have the fucking iron cross on the base plate.
So, like... 20-25?
Those stamped plates didn’t show up until the Stage 10s; is that correct?
I actually still own a couple/few pairs of various Stages. Blessed, I suppose.
i think the indys i had in 2006 or so didn't have a stamp, the next ones a few years later had one, then the next stage had a different stamp i think. i forgot what the last stamp was. it was just the cross and then the cross with a ring around or vice versa, i don't remember. i think stage 10 was the first iteration. stage 11 had a different stamp.
no idea what stage indy is at rn.
They started putting the iron cross on the baseplate slide area on stage 8, so 1998. Every stage since then has had them, but around 10 I believe they started putting that circle around the cross.
I've got some stage 7's, last stage to have no cross... and they look great. I don't get the fuss against removing the cross, it's just going back to how the baseplates looked for the first 20 years of Indy. More authentic, less conflicting, seems like a win-win.