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2020 Corvette of the Year Finalist (appearance mods)
C1 of Year Finalist (appearance mods) 2019
Looks suspicious to me. The four isn't even the same size as the rest, and they aren't lined up perfectly. And where is the vin#? No broach marks on the block surface or out of focus anyway......
The pad looked pretty smooth in person, without obvious broach marks. But it didn't have swirl marks or cross cut marks from being decked, either. Not all original pads look like someone dragged a rake through concrete.
At first, I thought the pad was a restamp. But a restamp would not have gotten some elements right (aligning on centers of letters/digits) and then done things like mismatched type fonts. But mismatch type fonts were possible in the factory as it was just a number, not a piece of art.
Now this adds to the impact.
Last edited by Procrastination Racing; 01-16-2017 at 11:08 PM.
The pad looked pretty smooth in person, without obvious broach marks. But it didn't have swirl marks or cross cut marks from being decked, either. Not all original pads look like someone dragged a rake through concrete.
At first, I thought the pad was a restamp. But a restamp would not have gotten some elements right (aligning on centers of letters/digits) and then done things like mismatched type fonts. But mismatch type fonts were possible in the factory as it was just a number, not a piece of art.
Now this adds to the impact.
I'm not sure what it is that you are trying to infer here. Are you suggesting that is an original L88 block that came in that car? If so, why no VIN stamping?
Isn't that the car SWCDUKE worked on that only had 12 miles and he amitted the owner pulled the original motor
This car was restored in the mid 90s by Nabors for long time collector Ray Norvell. The car is an original L88. The original motor was long gone. The car was restored with an over the counter correctly dated L88 motor.
I'm not sure what it is that you are trying to infer here. Are you suggesting that is an original L88 block that came in that car? If so, why no VIN stamping?
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This is the famous 12-Mile L88 Corvette. In 1975, it was sold after being in the original owner's basement garage (IIRC) since he brought it home new. He drove it home, took the engine out, and began to make it a race car. He never finished, never put it back together, and apparently sold the engine separately. It was in almost every Corvette magazine in the 1975-1976 timeframe.
As Provette says, it had a correctly dated original L88 OTC motor put in as no one could get the original back.
So this lousy stamp you see is most likely an original factory stamping. It just isn't original to this car, but is original to the engine. I didn't see it purchased over the counter, but enough people claim it was, so it probably was and that is why there is no VIN, as it wasn't sold in a car.
Now this also brings up another point. This car is an NOM. Many would have you believe the value of an NOM car is nearly nothing. Yet this is the highest price paid for a Corvette. Maybe, just maybe, the value of a Corvette is not determined solely on 7 or 8 digits stamped into the machined surface on the front of the engine.
01-15-2017, 08:41 PM
