help with 65 engine pad ?

[Ron H.]

EnginePad65_zpse361c318.jpg
Car is a 65 - 327/365hp


Can anyone give me some opinions on the following:

Date vailidity - body build 1/29/65

Digit correctness - especialy "F", "HH", "9"


Broach marks - ???

[Brian D.]

Re: help with 65 engine pad ?

Unusual that the two stamp groups would be so aligned with each other... The "F" looks all right, based on others I've seen recently.

[Gene M.]

Re: help with 65 engine pad ?

Ron,
The VIN number looks goofy if you are looking to buy look some more.

[Jim D.]

Re: help with 65 engine pad ?

Ron,
The VIN number looks goofy if you are looking to buy look some more.

I agree. Compared to my 65 pad on the VIN, my "5,7,9&0" are different than what's posted above and on the assembly stamp, my "2,9&0" are different.

[William C.]

Re: help with 65 engine pad ?

I'm with Gene...

[Steven S.]

Re: help with 65 engine pad ?

Agree with the above posters. From looking at dozens of engine stamps recently, the VIN stamp on that pad sure looks funny. It is very spaced apart, and the space between the 9s is wide enough to drive a truck through, where the strange 7 is stamped.

My advice is to keep looking, or offer him 20 - 25% less than his asking price, if the engine is misrepresented as an original, matching #s motor.

Good luck with your search.

Steve

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[William H.]

Re: help with 65 engine pad ?

Ron,
100-0024_IMG.jpgHere is my 65 350 hp if you want to compare.
Bill

[James W.]

Re: help with 65 engine pad ?

Ron,

Here's my 65 350 hp stamp pad if you need another one to compare to. The car has been in my family since the early 70's. There are some marks on the pad from a sanding disk the was used to clean off the cylinder block when a valve job was done on the car in the mid 1980's prior to heading out to the NCRS Nat'l. Convention in Boston.


Regards,

James West

[James W.]

Re: help with 65 engine pad ?

Bill,

Great picture of you pad.

I have a question for some of the more season judges who comment here on the TDB. The posted picture of Bill's VIN and suffix stamping shows the U in the suffix stamp raised above the H. I have a 1964 Corvette that was judged at a past regional that was called for NTFP because the "D" in the RD suffix on my stamp pad was raised and slightly slanted plus the entire stamping is more deeply stamped in the tops of the numbers and letter than on the bottom. I'll upload a picturte if anyone wishes to see it and give their opinion.


Thanks,

James West

Ron,
[ATTACH=CONFIG]47736[/ATTACH]Here is my 65 350 hp if you want to compare.
Bill

[Paul J.]

Re: help with 65 engine pad ?

Bill,

Great picture of you pad.

I have a question for some of the more season judges who comment here on the TDB. The posted picture of Bill's VIN and suffix stamping shows the U in the suffix stamp raised above the H. I have a 1964 Corvette that was judged at a past regional that was called for NTFP because the "D" in the RD suffix on my stamp pad was raised and slightly slanted plus the entire stamping is more deeply stamped in the tops of the numbers and letter than on the bottom. I'll upload a picturte if anyone wishes to see it and give their opinion.


Thanks,

James West

Yes, I would like to see a picture of it.

[James W.]

Re: help with 65 engine pad ?

Paul,

Here's the pictures of the stamp pad on my '64 Corvette. I've owned it since I was 17 (1980) and I am third owner. To that time (1980) and to my knowledge when my dad and I disassembled the car the engine appeared to have never been out of the car based on the original motor mounts, bolts, etc. still being in place. I will say that at that time I was not a dues paying member of the NCRS although my dad had been a member since 1974 or 1975 and I did not know the importance that engine stamp pad broach marks would have in the future for the car. When I prepped the engine of the car for painting I used (gulp) a drill motor with a wire wheel to clean the flash rust off the block after it came out of the hot tank. So I freely admit that I removed most of the original broach marks from the stamp pad and I'll take the 38 point deduct everytime no questions asked even though I can still see a few broach marks here and there. I did take a deduct for the broach marks missing. At the time of the rebuild the block was not decked, just sonic checked and honed. Both the VIN stamp and the engine suffix was called for NTFP. From studying other original pads with of similar suffix numbers and letter from the same time frame mine appear to be what GM stamped on the block in January of 1964.

Sorry, I don'r mean to hijack this thread.

Thanks,

James West

Yes, I would like to see a picture of it.