lid vent question and Weber history

[LightningBoldtz]

@Craig need your input.
Based on this diagram in 1978 Weber went to raised letters and wider table(Assuming)


Looking at Hoss' yellow 18 his would be a 1978


Based on that this red should be 1976/77



Looking at the Weber catalog from 1979 it shows flat letters with small tab, is this a mistake on Webers marketing dept?  Were they just lazy in the pictures that they show

http://weberkettleclub.com/weber-catalogs/1978-weber-catalog.pdf

or here if you want it to load faster 
http://tvwbb.com/docs/1979webercatalog.pdf

[LightningBoldtz]

I just noticed that link on this site says 1979 http://weberkettleclub.com/old-weber-catalogs/

Yet the URL says 1978....I am really confused now

[Craig]

It is the 1979 catalog. It is marked "T-79" in the corners. The catalog was put together in 1978. If you look at the black and red kettles they have small tabs on the lid. Especially the black kettles. The brown, blue and green ones are large tab lid vents. Heck Weber even recycled their old red "cut-away" kettle from earlier in the decade with small bowl tabs but slapped on some modern wheels to make it look current. We do know that there are examples of no date code w/ raised letters dark blue/dark green as well. No evidence of lime green with that vent.

[LightningBoldtz]

It is the 1979 catalog. It is marked "T-79" in the corners. The catalog was put together in 1978. If you look at the black and red kettles they have small tabs on the lid. Especially the black kettles. The brown, blue and green ones are large tab lid vents. Heck Weber even recycled their old red "cut-away" kettle from earlier in the decade with small bowl tabs but slapped on some modern wheels to make it look current. We do know that there are examples of no date code w/ raised letters dark blue/dark green as well. No evidence of lime green with that vent.

Looking again, that is a good catch.

[Troy]

http://weberkettleclub.com/weber-catalogs/1978-weber-catalog.pdf

or here if you want it to load faster 
http://tvwbb.com/docs/1979webercatalog.pdf

Thanks for the heads up. Our file was full resolution and 300mb.
I optimized, now its 2mb and it downloads four times faster than twb