Welcome to the CRG Discussion Forum!
Classified ads are not allowed on the forum.
Show Posts
This section allows you to view all posts made by this member. Note that you can only see posts made in areas you currently have access to.
Looks nice. Do you know if it has all the original rims? Is it still on the west coast.No, It's on the East coast (Virginia) about 15 hours North of me. I'd have to drive up and look at it. I'm interested if all is what it is. Being a Van Nuys, my only hope would be that the DZ stamp is real and the part VIN near the oil filter matches the dash VIN as the owner says it does.
The car looks pretty nice from the couple pics you posted. Do you have somebody you trust that is near it, that can go check it out?I notice it has a console, but no clock. So console was possibly added at one point, with a tach.Owner says it was clock deleted ... is that a possible option ?
Yes you can see that's a '1' partly obscured by the trim tag rivet.Yeah I couldn't figure out if that looked like a "1" or "0" behind the rivet or just part of the rivet. Gonna try to get a better pic.
My former L A 69 09D 68 down by oil filter. fyiOh wow now that's early ....hmmmm
It's definitely a 12B, Your VIN is about 375 off mine.Interesting Rick, Thanks. Now my head is spinning. Within the last few post I called the current owner again to verify the TT as 12B and not 02B. I thought maybe I had heard him wrong during our first conversation earlier today. From what the current owner is saying it is an 02B..Now that's baffling unless the TT is bad. An 02B production no. would be near 52xxxx as were a 12B production is around 51xxxx (10,000 car difference) Being the vin is 512876 that's more like 12B ...ugh ! Now I'm gonna need a better close up of the TT as well... stay tuned !
Norwood started stamping the engine VIN down near the oil filter in the early 1969 calendar year. Van Nuys was more inconsistant and stampings have been found on both places thru April of 69. So yes it could have been stamped down by the oil filter like Norwood if its a 02B. According to Jerry some early production Van Nuys engines have been found down by the filter as wellMaybe I had fat fingers in the first post and posted the wrong TT date. It looks like 12B. Gentleman says he'll try tomorrow to get a pic of the partial VIN near the filter. Says it is there but hard to read and matches the VIN. Will post as soon as I can get
I just received the VIN 124379L512876 and I believe the TT date is 12B and not 02B as I stated in the very first post. So the engine and rear would fall in line but the transmission would not since it's A27B (Jan 27)..correct?Not sure when the shift was from the pad to the oil filter area occurred but my engine was built 7 days before yours and it's on the pad. Makes it nice to read.Stamp looks good to me. I have a 12B LA built Z and the fonts are similar. My VIN is stamped on the pad too. Is this one?I was told that the Vin was stamped near the oil filter. That was another question I had.. when did or did Van Nuys move their stamp off the pad like Norwood ? Also, just curious.. I know there's a window that blocks were cast and used but due to it being near the turn of the new year and with the Holidays and work weeks being shortened is it possible that a Z could have a block casted 2 months prior? Just throwing it out there..
Stamp looks good to me. I have a 12B LA built Z and the fonts are similar. My VIN is stamped on the pad too. Is this one?I was told that the Vin was stamped near the oil filter. That was another question I had.. when did or did Van Nuys move their stamp off the pad like Norwood ? Also, just curious.. I know there's a window that blocks were cast and used but due to it being near the turn of the new year and with the Holidays and work weeks being shortened is it possible that a Z could have a block casted 2 months prior? Just throwing it out there..
easy to see the plate in your pic Zee, I don't see it in the first pic, unless it is buried under a lot of under coating...Yeah I see what your saying BULL, My pic shows the plate and a hanger fastened to it. Geb looks like there may have been a hanger bracket there at one time, and we're seeing an image of were it once was as ko-lek-tor had pointed out. X2 on scrape away to find the dual exh plate.
The 'location' of the stamps wrt the head are a bit different than I'm used to seeing.. Perhaps JohnZ, William, or Kurt can comment on the gang stamp and if they can get this close to the head with the head installed?? Usually the stamps are more near the front edge of the deck than these...Oh wow..I didn't pick that up. Yeah the gang stamp would of had to been right up against the head and there's not much room there.
Getting the casting dates, and all other info would be helpful in making an originality determination...
