Researching the location of the VIN and production stamps on the 69 400 engine reveals they should both be stamped on the deck surface of the block on the drivers side. How consistent is this? My fathers 69 w/400 is original to the car. He bought it in `72 and never pulled the engine until I did. Looking for the numbers I found the VIN stamp on the passenger side deck surface between 6/8 cylinders. All of my books state this should be on the driver side. Appears in `67 it would be located on the passenger side where I found these numbers. While I am sure this has been debated, I was unable to find any definitive information. What is the experience of others? Is it expected to vary being the late 60's?
Duane and I spoke about this in our daily call this morning. As George said above, while they are technically suppose to be on the drivers side, never say never. The judging team would not deduct points for such a stamping as long as it was just the location of the stamping.
Guy's I have an original 69/400 RR and my VIN number is stamped on the passenger side between cylinders 6 and 8. Built November of 68.
That would not stop me from thinking the car was original. Fremont Calif cars often have the partial vin number stamped on the driver side front face of the motor. Duane
I have an RR code 400 and the RR stamp is back by the dipstick. You might need to clean the area gently to see the stamping. Mine has either been surfaced lightly or it was not stamped very well
My Wilmington built 68 GS400 conv has the vin stamp on the passenger side, the other codes are on the drivers side. Original engine car built April 68. You would think the person stamping it would notice they were on the wrong side of the engine
Or, as I was mentioning to Duane, they were too lazy to walk around every engine and hit two without walking around each engine. Stand in the middle and hit the gang stamp from there...
both on the DS but anything is possible. also my car was made in Canada so they have there own way of doing things up here got me thinking that my 67 numbers might be on the PS gonna have to check because there was nothing on the DS thanks for the hint johnny
well i'll be dam. I looked on the PS and saw stamping NR and under that was 052 which makes sense because my car was made 3rd week of sept. 1966. I've never seen stamping on the PS before. All the ones i've seen were on the DS. Like George said anything is possible. it was the 60's, thanks for the hint cheers johnny