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Apr 20, 2004 | 05:22 PM

Wicked_SS

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Casting number help please

I just purchased a 66 and was trying to find out what the number on the pad translated to. F1012HT

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Apr 20, 2004 | 05:42 PM

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Re: Casting number help please (Wicked_SS)

F= June
10 = 10th of month?
12 =?
HT = 327ci L79 350hp Hi-Lift Cam & 4 speed

*Source Corvette Specifications Guide by NCRS

Apr 20, 2004 | 07:26 PM

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Re: Casting number help please (Wicked_SS)

F=Flint Michigan plant
10=October
12=12th day
HT=327cid/350hp manual tranny
http://www.stingray.nu
go to corvette history, then 1966 for the "HT" info

An engine assembled in Oct. should also mean a low VIN number since Sept. is the first month for model/year. The data plate in the car will give you all of the other info. The VIN was stamped on the interior data plate, engine stamp pad, tranny, and frame. If they all don't match something is not original.

Apr 20, 2004 | 10:18 PM

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Re: Casting number help please (valrico4)

Thanks for the great info. Where is the data plate? Sorry buy I have only had c3's. Here is the VIN194676S103103

Apr 21, 2004 | 12:08 AM

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Re: Casting number help please (Wicked_SS)

If all C2's are the same, crawl into the passenger floorboard and look up under the glovebox. (take a flashlight) Look for data something like this ...

VIN# 40867 S xxxxxx
Style E23/64 867
Trim 490AB
Body S5646
Paint 936AA

Apr 21, 2004 | 09:00 AM

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Re: Casting number help please (valrico4)

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that VIN gives up an Oct 14, 1965 birthday, tight against the engine assembly date of October 12, but entirely possible for that period; I would say that checks out. If trying to put one's mind at ease, owner should also pull the engine casting date code found on the pass side on the block up near the firewall, post that up and we can make sense of it for you (format is alpha letter followed by two or three numbers). It should precede the engine assembly date, of course, but probably not by too much time to be considered normal.

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