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Camaro Research Group Discussion => Decoding/Numbers => Topic started by: william on July 22, 2015, 01:23:40 AM

Title: Caveat Emptor..another
Post by: william on July 22, 2015, 01:23:40 AM

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Chevrolet-Camaro-Z-28-/141724558408?forcerrptr=true&hash=item20ff712448&item=141724558408#

Claims to have a non-OE but "correct" DZ engine. Engine is stamped V0226DZ 19N553055, cast B249.

N553055 was final-assembled on or about December 3, 1968. Somehow the engine time-traveled and was factory-installed in a car built 84 days before the block was cast.

Title: Re: Caveat Emptor..another
Post by: 69 Zee on July 22, 2015, 03:17:16 AM

JMO.... both the VIN and the DZ stamps look bad.. characters are out of line !   :o  VIN in wrong location  :-\

Title: Re: Caveat Emptor..another
Post by: jdv69z on July 27, 2015, 08:53:01 PM

So I,m assuming these dealers deliberately do not show the trim tag?

Title: Re: Caveat Emptor..another
Post by: william on July 27, 2015, 09:36:12 PM

Some do, some do not.

In the case of this car it is photo #11 of the slide show. So I guess it is real.

Title: Re: Caveat Emptor..another
Post by: KurtS on July 28, 2015, 01:23:16 AM

Pad is a restamp - and as William points out, with a bad date and VIN!

124379N601813
Tag could be original.
Trans isn't.