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Old 06-04-2022, 01:17 PM
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Default THAT is what the partial VIN stamp SHOULD look like.

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Originally Posted by 69hardtop View Post
Don’t know if this helps or not, but for comparison here are stamps on my 1970 455 HO block
Notice that all the digits are stamped in a nice, straight line. Gang stamped.

Mike's YA block was very obviously hand stamped by someone. In the Corvette world, that would be described as a 'forced match'.

Hopefully the YA block is at least a 9799140 casting.
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