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Decoding/Numbers / Re: Mismatched Cowl Vin to motor and gearbox

« on: April 25, 2018, 06:30:16 PM »

Body partial VINs were NOT done at the same station as the partial VINs on the engine and transmission.

From John's assembly article...

Body Bank: Receives the body shell from Fisher, assigns VIN and stamps the hidden VINs, separates them by major Chevrolet equipment and option content, and schedules them in "locked" sequence to the Chevrolet Trim Line; specs for each car are "broadcast" to subassembly and feeder lines throughout the plant.

Engine Line: Receives engines and transmissions from six different supplier plants and joins them, stamps VIN derivatives, fully dresses and wires/plumbs the engine, engine and trans oil fill, and sends the completed assembly to the Chassis Line.

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Originality / Re: Eaton Posi Date

« on: April 25, 2018, 06:05:15 PM »

And that’s your choice. Whatever...

I mean either it’s either original to the car or not.

Mine isn’t - because it was originally a 3.73 open rear end.

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Decoding/Numbers / Re: Numbers matching or not - 3932388 block

« on: April 25, 2018, 04:19:54 PM »

There should be one down there. Often hard to read and sometimes can’t be seen if it’s in the car. But take a look.

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Decoding/Numbers / Re: Numbers matching or not - 3932388 block

« on: April 25, 2018, 03:20:44 PM »

HA code was used for Camaros, Novas and Chevelles.

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Decoding/Numbers / Re: Numbers matching or not - 3932388 block

« on: April 25, 2018, 03:10:01 PM »

Tough to evaluate. It definitely not all original. Someone scratched up the block deck pad in a poor attempt to duplicate broach marks. Some of the digits COULD and I say again COULD be original. Hard to say for sure with the head on the block. There MAY be some remnants of a partial VIN on the left side of the pad? Not sure.

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Decoding/Numbers / Re: not quite...

« on: April 25, 2018, 12:52:48 PM »

Forest Green is a 1970 color.  I asked for more information.

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Decoding/Numbers / Re: Mismatched Cowl Vin to motor and gearbox

« on: April 25, 2018, 12:36:24 PM »

I do not think there will be any GM of Australia records on this car.  Was it sold new in Australia?

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Decoding/Numbers / Re: Mismatched Cowl Vin to motor and gearbox

« on: April 24, 2018, 06:34:57 PM »

Send me your matching exact date stamp examples Austin along with casting dates of each.  If you want.  If the stampings are NOT on the same DATE and the same YEAR, you are comparing apples to oranges. Same shift means nothing, unless is the exact same 8 hour shift. 

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Decoding/Numbers / Re: Mismatched Cowl Vin to motor and gearbox

« on: April 24, 2018, 01:40:08 AM »

The stamping you have posted all seem to be genuine, but I am going to let Kurt comment.

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General Discussion / Re: DATABASE

« on: April 23, 2018, 07:45:52 PM »

We only keep first gen cars in our main database.

Some of us collect data on other cars too.

But as Darrell posted, for a non 67 to 69 Camaro, the best things to do are Google the VIN and find a site that deals with that specific family and generation of cars.

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Originality / Re: Eaton Posi Date

« on: April 21, 2018, 08:32:39 PM »

And I just chatted with a person that deals with rear end internals every day for his business.

With the new Eaton style posi units being sold today, the internals and cases are a lot stronger than the originals.  Prices on the new ones are typically the same or less than an old rebuilt unit.  Just FYI.

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General Discussion / Re: 1969 Camaro factory Tachometers

« on: April 21, 2018, 07:47:07 PM »

Not that I am aware of - here is the current list.

http://www.camaros.org/bulletins.shtml

If there is not one currently in the works (I will check), is this something you would be willing to work with us on?  We would need to include 67 and 68 as well.

Topics usually need to have months or even years of data collection before a report can be written. 

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Trans-Am Camaros / Re: New Zealand/Australian Camaros And Firebirds

« on: April 21, 2018, 07:30:04 PM »

I do not remember seeing this thread before. WOW there are some great pics and I enjoyed learning more about the Monaro.

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Originality / Re: Eaton Posi Date

« on: April 21, 2018, 07:27:09 PM »

The only one I have easy access to here is a 3 series stamped F 2 J

I had a 4 series a while back that was just stamped 8

Honestly unless you have a COPO car, who cares about the date? It’s not going to be judged or checked unless it needs to be verified as a 4 series with correct COPO internals, which are different than regular posi internals. Now having correctly dated gears (and housing) IS important in my mind. Just my 2 cents. 

It’s ok to be mindful of the numbers, just don’t fall over the edge to OCD. 

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Originality / Re: Eaton Posi Date

« on: April 21, 2018, 05:48:24 PM »

I am not sure they all were stamped with a date.