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Oct 6, 2006 | 11:47 PM

millermilitary2000

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From: Ankeny Iowa

Please help on this VIN decode

I really like reading this forum and I know people must be sick of helping people with no experience with Corvette VIN's but I have found one I think might be fun. It is supposed to be a 1969 T-Top and had an original 427 w/ a 4Spd trans. Lemans Blue. It now has a non matching 454. I don't really care that the engine numbers don't match but would like to know if it was a true 427 car.

VIN 194379S716619

Thanks,

Perry

Oct 6, 2006 | 11:51 PM

pchmotoho

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Sorry, not enough info. 1972 was the first year that the vin# would indicate what motor came with the car.

Oct 6, 2006 | 11:57 PM

millermilitary2000

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Well that makes me nervous about buying this car then. Is there any way to tell other than this guys promise as he has only owned it 10 years.

Oct 7, 2006 | 04:07 AM

hunt4cleanair

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Originally Posted by millermilitary2000

I agree with the previous writer and wish to add that all that's fair at this point is to price it as a non-matching numbers Corvette. In terms of a big block car, you check the suspension and it should have a rear sway bar but even that can be added if the chassis was originally built for a small block. A rear sway bar would tell you it was correctly reconfigured as a big block car. If you can get part numbers and date codes off the shock that might tell you if shocks are original and to what chassis they belonged (smallblock or big block).

Oct 7, 2006 | 05:00 AM

WESCH

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69 Vettes should also have the engine sticker on the center pedestal just in front of the handbrake lever.
It can of course be changed, but if it looks old, well....
The RPM red line indicator also tells you what engine was installed. Again, this can be changed, but I don't think anybody would go through all this extra work to put a non numbers matching wrong BB into it.
Fuel line, only 1 for BB, no return line.

Günther

Oct 7, 2006 | 07:00 AM

Chuck Gongloff

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HD rear end stub axle caps instead of U bolts.

Check the rear end code, but that could have been changed out too. Chuck

Oct 7, 2006 | 07:53 AM

wfo76

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Tachometer redline should be
427 hydraulic lifters 5600rpm
427 solid lifters 6500rpm

All BB in 69 have 1 steel fuel line EXCEPT the 390hp 427 which has 2