1970 engine block pad stamp question
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I hope that by posting what information I have will also help any perspective buyer of this car to not rule it out because of any questions about the engine being original or not.
Jay
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I just checked and yes my assembly date is also (0509) the same as the car in the for sale ad. Both of our cars were built on June 5th,1970.
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I have the NCRS shipping data information for my car and I used the Birthday calculator for the eBay car with the reverse "J" engine suffix and they were both built on June 5th,1970 just a few VIN's apart.
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Hi Keith,
I thought something similar to you when I saw the 'J'.
There's no way for it to be 'backward' and look like that. If ANYTHING it could have been upside down, but I don't think that could happen either... I think the individual stamps could only go in the gang-holder in one way.
If the 'J' had been stamped separately it could have been upside down, but there's no way to make it mirror image... it's a stamp... it only makes a single impression... it can't vary. it's either right side up or upside down.
I think the seller thought he had a simple explaination that no one would consider on their own.
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Alan
I thought something similar to you when I saw the 'J'.
There's no way for it to be 'backward' and look like that. If ANYTHING it could have been upside down, but I don't think that could happen either... I think the individual stamps could only go in the gang-holder in one way.
If the 'J' had been stamped separately it could have been upside down, but there's no way to make it mirror image... it's a stamp... it only makes a single impression... it can't vary. it's either right side up or upside down.
I think the seller thought he had a simple explaination that no one would consider on their own.
Regards,
Alan
This is the explanation that I have been given and makes sense to me. It is not an issue of the stamp being placed upside down in the gang holder but rather the stamp itself is made incorrectly (reversed) and then placed in the gang holder correctly and then stamped into the pad. Assuming that only the "J" stamp is made incorrect that would then produce the result of the reversed "J" on the pad. That is the only way that I could see that it could have happened. A new and correct "J" stamp would then solve the problem.
Jay
