[bergy]

Great discussion and observations guys. I was a GMI student sponsored by Chevrolet Tonawanda back in the day. Like most co-op students, I occassionally got the crap jobs (like stamping parts that had missing/wrong digits). I'm not saying that the "T" in question is or isn't ligit, but it wouldn't surprise me. Our job was simply to obliterate the old digit and add a new one - "pretty" wasn't in our vocabulary! I usually used an "X" stamp or grinder (on "as cast" surfaces) to get rid of the incorrect digit. It was really up to the inspection department to determine the method - it just had to be correctly, permanently marked - that's all. I hate that this car has that goofed up "T", but who knew that our work as a bunch of 18 year olds would someday be placed under a microscope?