Nebraska estate sale

[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by jeffschevelle

Rather than someone over-stamping that letter years later, seems more likely to me that either

(A) it was mistamped at Tonawanda and corrected at Tonawanda before shipping to KC, or

(B) it was correctly stamped at Tonawanda as initially built (as a manual engine), but for some reason was changed to an automatic before going into a car (either changed at Tonawanda before shipping, or changed at KC after it got there), and that letter got over-stamped then. July 2 is very late in the production year, so maybe they checked orders vs. inventory and had to change one or more manual motors to AT motors to meet the remaining supply needs?

At Flint Assembly (at least on the frame line) the correct repair was to "X" out the offending character and then hand stamp the correct digit or letter in that proximity. No overstamping (and never any grinding).

Usually there was not just one vehicle involved. In the case of getting the VINs out of sequence you would have a number of vehicles stamped wrong before someone would notice, which would require dispatching your repair man (or "Quality Man", the foreman's right hand man) to determine the scope of the issue and work his way back with hammer and punch set in hand, all while the line kept running.

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