Check out the numbers off the 69 Chevelle that I've been working on, especially this funky tranny stamp:

http://www.stratagaz.com/69ChevelleNumbers01.jpg


Everything else looks OK (although the manifold is dated the same date as the engine assembly), but that tranny stamp is goofy. The engine was pulled long ago and left outside sitting upsidedown which destroyed the original distributor.

http://www.stratagaz.com/69ChevelleNumbers02.jpg

http://www.stratagaz.com/69ChevelleNumbers03.jpg

http://www.stratagaz.com/69ChevelleNumbers04.jpg

http://www.stratagaz.com/69ChevelleNumbers05.jpg

http://www.stratagaz.com/69ChevelleNumbers06.jpg

http://www.stratagaz.com/69ChevelleNumbers07.jpg

http://www.stratagaz.com/69ChevelleNumbers08.jpg


The fonts are different in the VIN stamp...strange?

http://www.stratagaz.com/69ChevelleNumbers09.jpg

http://www.stratagaz.com/69ChevelleNumbers10.jpg

http://www.stratagaz.com/69ChevelleNumbers11.jpg

Not so strange, the engine code was done at the engine plant and the VIN stamp was done along the assembly line as I recall.

So do any of those different VIN references actually match the car's VIN?

Yes, the engine stamp and tranny stamp both match the cars VIN which ends 9062.


I noticed that you are from Arizona too! graemlins/thumbsup.gif

I like your 33 Chevy 3 window! I have a 35 Chevy 3 window coupe. :cool:

Here it is with fresh paint a couple weeks ago (Ignore the wheels it will have the right wheels when it's done).

http://www.stratagaz.com/69Chevelle01.jpg

http://www.stratagaz.com/69Chevelle02.jpg


I dropped the engine and tranny in on Monday and have to assemble the rest. It's going to get the interior installed on Thursday.

In the old days the engine plant (eg. Tonawanda), would stamp the engine with its id (eg. T0402MQ). At the car assembly plant the engine was dressed and transmission was mated to the engine line. An operator had a hand stamp and a big hammer to put the VIN on the engine and transmission. Crude but effective. There was a mechanical VIN unit for rolling the VIN on the body. Our '69 had no VIN on the frame, just on the cowl just below the two heater box openings.
I've helped maintained the VIN equipment in the Oshawa truck plant for more than 15 years. In that time they have modernized to a computer controled stamp. Think of it as a three pin dot matrix printer where the pins are air operated. It works quite well and there isn't the problem of an operator putting the wrong numbers in the stamp or the roller stamp mis-indexing. There were lots of errors in the old days. When the frame was mis-stamped, and the problem caught, the numbers were over stamped with an X and the proper numbers stamped by hand. At least that is how it worked here.