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Originally Posted by WILMASBOYL78
We had a 67 SS396 and the pad stamp didn't look like that...the '7' was offset, kind of askew from the other numbers. Ours was a Fremont built vehicle, maybe each plant was different ?? It doesn't look right to me based on others I have seen...but I know we have experts here who can sort it out....like Mike Crown.
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Originally Posted by L78M22Rag
I agree with Wilma. I've never seen a '67 VIN stamp on a deck that was lined up properly like that. Coincidence that they got this one straight? I doubt it.
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Gang stamped VIN would be OK for this Atlanta car built in that late production time frame. But the Tonawanda stamp is bogus for several reasons (in addition to this being a 2-bolt block).
67's were in a transitional period on the engine VIN stamps. One Chevelle plant used a gang holder the entire model year. Every other Chevelle plant individually stamped each digit at the beginning of the year. By the end of the year every Chevelle plant had switched to gang holders for the entire VIN stamp, except Fremont. I have an extensive library of photos of legit original stamps and can pin down (within a few weeks) the changeover date for each plant (except Framingham which there are so few surviving examples to refer to). Makes it much harder to sneak a fake by me!!
Fremont actually had 4 or 5 different formats during the course of 67 production, and during part of the year they actually gang stamped 7 1234, and then hand stamped the Z in the space and hand stamped the last two digits of the sequence # !! And it is common in that time frame to see the 4th digit of the sequence # overstamped with another number too, when the car got assigned a VIN in the next group of 100 higher than what had been gang stamped on the engine. Lotsa weird stuff happened at Fremont!