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Camaro Research Group Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: royal67rs on September 09, 2011, 03:49:40 AM

Title: Misstamped cowl
Post by: royal67rs on September 09, 2011, 03:49:40 AM

My 68 has a misstamp on the cowl. Has anyone seen this before?  It should read 8l341406

Title: Re: Misstamped cowl
Post by: bertfam on September 09, 2011, 03:51:55 AM

Yes, it happened once in awhile.

If you looks close, it appears the cowl has 18L341406 with a 1 struck above the 0. Can you get a clearer picture of the cowl stamping?

Ed

Title: Re: Misstamped cowl
Post by: royal67rs on September 09, 2011, 03:55:45 AM

I will try to to get a better pic tomorrow.

Title: Re: Misstamped cowl
Post by: royal67rs on September 10, 2011, 03:23:20 AM

Ed, here are some better pics.

Title: Re: Misstamped cowl
Post by: bertfam on September 10, 2011, 03:44:20 AM

Yes, going by the pictures, they match. If you look carefully at the heater box location (Upper picture below), you'll see that the last three digits are 406 with the 4 and 0 being lower than the rest of the VIN. On the cowl (lower picture below), what I thought was a 1 next to the 6 is actually the dividing line of the stamp.

The cowl was stamped lighter than the heater box, so that's why it's hard to make out.

(http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h52/bertfam/heater.jpg)


(http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h52/bertfam/cowl-1.jpg)

Ed

Title: Re: Misstamped cowl
Post by: JohnZ on September 10, 2011, 02:54:03 PM

A stamping of this nature isn't unusual - the rotating segments of the "egg" stamper didn't index fully or mis-indexed from stamping the previous car's partial VIN.

Title: Re: Misstamped cowl
Post by: royal67rs on September 11, 2011, 03:17:51 AM

Thanks for the info. Interesting stuff! Bob