Numbers Matching... transmission [pic]
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Numbers Matching... transmission [pic]
We spend a lot of time looking at photos of stamp pads for numbers matching... here's a nice pic I took today of my NM transmission, complete with October date... (LOVE digital cameras)
PS: this is the stuff you do waiting for paint to get done...
PS: this is the stuff you do waiting for paint to get done...
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Melting Slicks
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Rotation complete.
The thing I noticed about my stamping is it looks a little light toward the end of the vin number. It should have another 2 in it. You can barely make out the top of the missing 2
The thing I noticed about my stamping is it looks a little light toward the end of the vin number. It should have another 2 in it. You can barely make out the top of the missing 2
Last edited by R1234; Feb 13, 2009 at 09:31 PM. Reason: oops! Should've been a 2 instead of an 8
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Your last digit is very light... but if you look at mine, you can see the top half of the numbers are much heavier/deeper than the bottom. Stamping these must have been clumsy.
Re-stamping a trans must be a neat trick.
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Here's one for you - off my 1974 LS4 convertible - sharp forum members will notice that my tranny is stamped for a 73 car - though it has my vin on it...another one of those so called "mistakes" - that isn't....
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Thanks... I was standing on my head even more than normal.
Your last digit is very light... but if you look at mine, you can see the top half of the numbers are much heavier/deeper than the bottom. Stamping these must have been clumsy.
Re-stamping a trans must be a neat trick.
Your last digit is very light... but if you look at mine, you can see the top half of the numbers are much heavier/deeper than the bottom. Stamping these must have been clumsy.
Re-stamping a trans must be a neat trick.
Racer
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....it's my understanding that engine and transmission vins were stamped at the same time with the same stamp...which could be another way to distinguish whether an engine is a restamp or not...if the fonts are not the same...they weren't stamped at that same time...
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Maybe got sent back to Muncie and torn down and then sent back to St Louis.
Melting Slicks
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Now you got my curiosity up. I'll have to check out my engine stamp.
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PS... nice going, now Im comparing mine...
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