VIN stamping on Tailshaft

Mu5tanggt_old · September 7, 2009 at 2:48 PM

Finally found my VIN stamp on the trans, it was just about staring me in the face but I expected to find on the main case not the tailshaft. Check out the backwards K, oops.

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C6ZZKGT · September 8, 2009 at 11:38 AM Official Post

That sure is a new one on me. It is interesting that the letters are a different size from the numbers. The number three is not of the normal stamping either as they are usually rounded at the top.

-Fred-

round2K_old · September 8, 2009 at 2:12 PM

I would recommend that you continue to research the source of the stamping. We've seen a lot of transmission and block stamping, but I can't recall ever having seen the mix and match approach to the size of the number and letter dies. I agree with Fred on the 3 and the size of the letters being unusual, and the backward K is equally odd.

Mu5tanggt_old · September 8, 2009 at 4:02 PM

Kar was bought new by my father and has never had the trans out except when we replaced the clutch in 1983. Engine VIN stamping is very poor quality also.

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C6ZZKGT · September 8, 2009 at 4:59 PM Official Post

The engine stamping certainly does add credibility to this subject. This is especially true due to the fact that your father has owned it since it was new. It must have been a tough day at the assembly plant when your Kar was built!!! Maybe this is a Monday Kar after a party weekend.

-Fred-

round2K_old · September 8, 2009 at 6:23 PM

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Kar was bought new by my father and has never had the trans out except when we replaced the clutch in 1983. Engine VIN stamping is very poor quality also.

Guess that answers the question of authenticity and provenance.

Nice to see them matching. What was the scheduled build date?

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Mu5tanggt_old · September 8, 2009 at 7:10 PM

Ordered March 15, build April 4, delivered April 7

CharlesTurner · September 8, 2009 at 10:15 PM

The engine block stamping is more believable than the trans. Seen them like that before. At least all the characters on the block are the same type/size. The trans is just a hodge-podge.

jwc66k · September 8, 2009 at 11:29 PM

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Ordered March 15, build April 4, delivered April 7

Built on a "Monday", thereby lending credence to the Monday-Friday scenario. I would also include that it is possible that two different workers did the stampings, in two different sub-assembly areas and on two different days.

Jim

C6ZZKGT · September 8, 2009 at 11:35 PM Official Post

The stampings on the engine actually do match the trans in both the type style of the three and the oversize K.

-Fred-

66KGT_old · September 9, 2009 at 6:54 AM

I think I would be putting a new battery cable on there very soon...

Mu5tanggt_old · November 10, 2009 at 12:31 PM

Was trolling thru the archives and found more than one posting about the backward K vin stampings on the transmissions from the Metuchen plant. I guess it might have been some workers signature.

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