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royal67rs

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Misstamped cowl
« 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

bertfam

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Re: Misstamped cowl
« Reply #1 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?

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Re: Misstamped cowl
« Reply #2 on: September 09, 2011, 03:55:45 AM »
I will try to to get a better pic tomorrow.

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Re: Misstamped cowl
« Reply #3 on: September 10, 2011, 03:23:20 AM »
Ed, here are some better pics.

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Re: Misstamped cowl
« Reply #4 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.






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Re: Misstamped cowl
« Reply #5 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.
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Re: Misstamped cowl
« Reply #6 on: September 11, 2011, 03:17:51 AM »
Thanks for the info. Interesting stuff! Bob