Re: More Restamps
You know, I here complaining about this on Mopar sites all the time, but I thought Chevy guys should have been over this YEARS ago. Maybe this is a new generation of guys in the market that are unaware of the history of this.
I was a member of NCRS beginning in 1976. There first skinny little judging manuals had points established first for correct casting number, then correct casting date/time car built, then correct stamped characters. If you entered your car in judging competition with a "reproduuction" engine and all was "right" you were awarded ALL the points. However, if you TOLD the judges that it was not the original born in the car engine, they docked you points. Still wondering why people don't make disclosure about these things?
You guys REALLY don't think that there REALLY are as many "original" engines left in these hipo cars that were bought new to beat the snot out of as people claim do you?
Restamping engines, etc. has been going on for at LEAST 30 years for GM products and probably Fords too.
There was a company in Wisc. that used to advertise in Hemmings print (before Internet) selling engine. They had a big inventory with lots of casting date choices. They also offered pad stamping with correct font characters and rebuilding to stock or non stock specs. This was at least 15 years ago. I believe their name was Engines Unlimited. My point is, this has been going on in the open for a long time.
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