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06-06-2022, 12:42 AM
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Gorgeous car! What's up with the two bolts in the finger guard on the radiator? Is that how they have the shroud mounted ?? Should not have both a finger guard and a shroud. That 4-row rad with the fingerguard is an L72 only part I do believe.
That A in the VIN stamp on the block looks bigger than the A in 66 Chevelle ATL stamps. The rest of the fonts look the same and the scattered stamp looks the same. Maybe full size car engines were dressed on a different line, with a different set of dies, with a bigger A?
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06-06-2022, 06:25 AM
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I like Marina Blue! Nice looking car. I'm not sure what the 2 bolts are holding on to the finger guard. They shouldn't be there. They weren't in the Mecum pictures. It has the correct radiator. Having both the finger guard and fan shroud is also correct. A number of detail things should be changed to dial it in to factory, not terrible things. Air cleaner is a repop, wrong service decal and placement, shouldn't have the chrome valve covers, rad cap, posi decal in trunk, bolt plating, wheels. I find it odd the Mecum description says Chevy replaced the 396 with the 427.
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06-06-2022, 10:57 AM
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The Mecum description is misleading. We all know the 427 didn't replace the 396 but was an available option.
OR, the Chevrolet dealer replaced the 396 with the 427. It states this car is 1 of 1859 made with the L72, but no obvious paperwork to back that up... 
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06-07-2022, 07:14 PM
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...and there was 1,856 full size L72 cars factory built. Not 1,859, maybe a typ-O.
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06-10-2022, 03:14 AM
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