Stamp pad

[Joe E.]

This pad is from a 66 one owner and he claims that it has never been touched from the time it left the factory. The owner bought this Corvette new and still ownes it and it has never been out of his hands. This owner is old but he still semes to remember very well about the history of this Corvette.

[Patrick B.]

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The mixture of character styles on the Flint stamping looks perfect for the time period, and the VIN characters also look correct. The grain looks like someone may have cleaned it with sandpaper, rubbing lateraly.

[David B.]

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Hi Joe - Here's a picture of the stamp pad from '66 sn 1126. It also has an F0915HT assembly code. Looks nuts on to me. Perhaps a factory grindout at the Flint plant? Dave

[Mike M.]

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i'm with pat. if one looks at the pad texture in the area of the vin #'s, i think i see factory-typical horizontal broach marks and the sandpaper marks are obvious and sad. mike

[Richard E.]

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Looks like a legit stamping with factory grind off...IMHO

[Bruce B.]

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Joe,

I'll have to change my opinion and go with the sandpaper theory. I enlarged the picture you posted and it looks like the lines run along the pad and then out near the end. But it does seen strange that the lines are very parallel to each other and pretty evenly spaced.

By the way how old is the owner, probably old enough to know better then to show us the pad stamp...

[Jim D.]

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Hi Joe - Here's a picture of the stamp pad from '66 sn 1126. It also has an F0915HT assembly code. Looks nuts on to me. Perhaps a factory grindout at the Flint plant? Dave

I agree. No way that was done with sandpaper.

[Terry W.]

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I believe that is one long thumb print smear

[John D.]

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I believe that is one long thumb print smear

I agree.......

[John H.]

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Looks like a factory grind-out to me - you can't make parallel marks like that with sandpaper.

[Michael W.]

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Interesting. I wonder why both stampings would have been ground out. Possibly an engine problem after installation that required removal and return to Flint for repair?

[Roy S.]

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Whatever, however the unusual marks were added, it is interesting that it appears they did not remove some of the displaced metal from the stamp impressions and I agree with M. McCagh quite a few of the broach marks are still visible. D. Borror great photo for comparison if that photo does not prove P. Boyd nailed it with his comment not much will.

[Robert T.]

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Boy, how many did they assemble in one day. Here's #1478 still with a 9/15 assembly date. That's at least a 352 span.

bob

[John H.]

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Boy, how many did they assemble in one day. Here's #1478 still with a 9/15 assembly date. That's at least a 352 span.

bob

Bob -

Remember that there was no effort at St. Louis to organize engine rack storage based on engine dates; when the rail car was opened, some racks would go to the storage area across the aisle from the engine dress line, and some might go directly to the line, and the racks at the back of the storage area might sit there for up to a week or two before the hi-lo driver ever got to them.

Nobody in the plant paid any attention to dates on anything - all that mattered was the part number.

[Robert T.]

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Duh, I should have thought about that . Thanks for the clarification.

bob