Assembler Signature??

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Wheel
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Assembler Signature??

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When I went to clean under the windshield wiper cowel panel this weekend, I found some writing on the underside. It looks like a signature, I assume someone who put car together. The spider is a 1982, so that explains the "82", but I don't know what the "28//" refers to and I can't decipher the name. Anyone hazard a guess for either?? :?

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28th of Jan??? or July if it is a 7???
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The name looks like Jelmari to me. I googled it and it is a Scandavian name, probably Finnish. It's also the name in Finnish for a Swedish town of Hjalmaren.
Could it be that some Fin decided to relocate to a more moderate clime?
That's gotta be a 2 in 28//, it looks the same as the one in 82. Can't figure out what the hashmarks would indicate though.
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A lot of different places put the day/month/year instead of what we normally do. (month/day/year)

So it could have been 28th of January 1982.

Maybe?
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The last 4 digits of the serial number are 2892. I am not sure what all the numbers in a serial number indicate, but could this be related? As far as the name, you got better CSI handwriting reading skills than me! :)
Were all these cars built in Italy?
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I doubt it would be a J, there isn't a J in the Italian alphabet, it looks like an 'I' (I was getting a flashback from my Grandfathers letter to my dad), unless maybe a Finnish worker was in the production line in Italy?
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