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Been a while since I've been on here. Something caught my eye and hoping to get some opinions on this stamp pad. I'm having a hard time convincing myself this one is legit, but it looks good to me at first. Are some of the broach marks curved?
Been a while since I've been on here. Something caught my eye and hoping to get some opinions on this stamp pad. I'm having a hard time convincing myself this one is legit, but it looks good to me at first. Are some of the broach marks curved?
Originally Posted by drwet
Since it's not from a Corvette, what difference does it make?
Why do you think it's not a Corvette engine?
The CTK shows as a Corvette code for 1970: 350ci 370hp 4B,4S,TI
The partial VIN coincides with the 1970 format: 70S4xxxxx
The partial VIN sequential number 9997 has an approx. "birth" date of May 23,1970 which coincides with the engine stamp date of May 13.
What are you seeing that I'm not?
GCCH: As for the curved "milling" marks, are you referring to the end of the pad where the K is stamped? I don't think those are fly-cutter marks because they are so faint and isolated to that small section; the stamp does not look shallower than typical.
The CTK shows as a Corvette code for 1970: 350ci 370hp 4B,4S,TI
The partial VIN coincides with the 1970 format: 70S4xxxxx
The partial VIN sequential number 9997 has an approx. "birth" date of May 23,1970 which coincides with the engine stamp date of May 13.
What are you seeing that I'm not?
GCCH: As for the curved "milling" marks, are you referring to the end of the pad where the K is stamped? I don't think those are fly-cutter marks because they are so faint and isolated to that small section; the stamp does not look shallower than typical.
67:72: Yeah, those curved marks kinda look like someone was trying to make broach marks. I don't really see many clear lines.
Otherwise it looks ok. It's supposedly a Top-flight car, but also that could have been years ago.
The CTK shows as a Corvette code for 1970: 350ci 370hp 4B,4S,TI
The partial VIN coincides with the 1970 format: 70S4xxxxx
The partial VIN sequential number 9997 has an approx. "birth" date of May 23,1970 which coincides with the engine stamp date of May 13.
What are you seeing that I'm not?
GCCH: As for the curved "milling" marks, are you referring to the end of the pad where the K is stamped? I don't think those are fly-cutter marks because they are so faint and isolated to that small section; the stamp does not look shallower than typical.
I stand corrected. I got lazy and looked it up online and the source I checked did not include CTK as being used on Corvette. So I blew the dust off some of my books, (yes I'm old enough to have some of those) and discovered CTK was introduced during the 1970 model year, replacing CTU for the 350 LT1.
It's a good day. I learned something.
Now that we've established it is a Corvette, we can justify going down that rabbit hole.
This is from one of my recent posts in another thread:
"The only way to know for sure is to contact Classic Car Affirmation Service. The company was started by Al Grenning years ago. I met him at Bloomington back in the day. He verified the stamp on my '66 for me back before he was charging for the service. He had albums full of photos of pad stamps ordered sequentially and you could often compare your stamp to the cars ahead and behind on the assembly line. If there was a chip out of the '3' in your stamp, you could see if the next car in line had the same defect. My pad had been stamped with the wrong number and the correct number stamped overtop, but you could see that every other detail of the stamp was an exact match to the other cars on the assembly line that day."
Don't know how long they take to respond to a request, but they are probably the only ones who can tell you for sure.
gccch is the car a green/tan convertible? If so be careful I have noticed this car advertised at a fake online dealership in the past. There are a lot of online dealers that steal pictures of cars from other dealers and post them on a site they just created. What dealer/owner are you talking to?
gccch is the car a green/tan convertible? If so be careful I have noticed this car advertised at a fake online dealership in the past. There are a lot of online dealers that steal pictures of cars from other dealers and post them on a site they just created. What dealer/owner are you talking to?
LOL… That may be the reason that the trim tag doesn’t jive. They stole the wrong photos.
gccch is the car a green/tan convertible? If so be careful I have noticed this car advertised at a fake online dealership in the past. There are a lot of online dealers that steal pictures of cars from other dealers and post them on a site they just created. What dealer/owner are you talking to?
Right on. I also saw where this place was located and it doesn't look like that kind of place!
engine stamp check
What are you seeing that I'm not?
