Help with 62 #'s
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Racer
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From: Vacaville Ca
Help with 62 #'s
Howdy all,
I'm looking at buying a '62, the car is not a matching # car, but I'm trying to figure out what it is and how much to offer. The tachometer is a 6500 redline, indicating a mechanical lifter motor, and the owner says the gauges are original. The motor in the car is a 1960 283ci, with the numbers being: X0728RD, block# 3896944 , date code F296. Is that a 1960 Corvette motor? The trans:WE1192. Differential: 3707306. Intake: 3844461. Vin#20867S107448. What do the numbers indicate? 340 horse car? Any of driveline match?
The car is very clean, white/red nice interior, nice body/paint.
What price range for a NOM clean 62?
If the 283 is a 60 Vette motor what would it be worth? I would like to put a datecoded 327 in the car and would sell the 283 to offset the cost.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
sted
I'm looking at buying a '62, the car is not a matching # car, but I'm trying to figure out what it is and how much to offer. The tachometer is a 6500 redline, indicating a mechanical lifter motor, and the owner says the gauges are original. The motor in the car is a 1960 283ci, with the numbers being: X0728RD, block# 3896944 , date code F296. Is that a 1960 Corvette motor? The trans:WE1192. Differential: 3707306. Intake: 3844461. Vin#20867S107448. What do the numbers indicate? 340 horse car? Any of driveline match?
The car is very clean, white/red nice interior, nice body/paint.
What price range for a NOM clean 62?
If the 283 is a 60 Vette motor what would it be worth? I would like to put a datecoded 327 in the car and would sell the 283 to offset the cost.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
sted
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3896944/F 29 6 is a '66 passenger car 283/230hp block, cast June 29, 1966, never used in Corvettes; the first digit in the pad stamp ("X") is incorrect - must be either "F", "T", or "K", and the "RD" suffix was only used for '62-'64 Corvette 300hp engines, so it appears to have been re-stamped. The trans is a T-10, made on May 11, 1959 on 2nd shift. The diff is from a '56 Corvette, non-posi. The intake is from a '64 365hp or '65 350hp or 365hp engine. The car itself was built on February 26, 1962. 
