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I heard back from the owner of the Corvette today. Surprisingly, he did not seem too interested that this was the original engine to his car, only that it was correct.

For anyone interested, here is his response:

Hi Jason



Thanks for making contact, and apologies for my delayed response. Re my car, I have tried to do some research on it in the past but I could only find out that it did come from California – which is based on a verbal comment from the previous owner who imported it into Melbourne, Australia from California. I do have details of the licence plate which shows it as being from California too, however I can’t be sure it was from Silicon Valley, sorry.



Re the block – the current pad in my car is blank but it was remachined by the previous owner, he just didn’t have the facilities in Australia to have it restamped. All other numbers on the block indicate it should be correct for my car. I do know of people in the US who could remachine and stamp it for me, but it would be a lot of effort to remove it, ship it over, and ship it back, so I haven’t bothered up to this point.



Re the ‘1’ being used for an ‘I’ i believe this was common practice in 1965.



Hence given the above it is quite possible that the block you have is correct for my car, but equally the block I already have could have been correct too. Therefore I would be interested to discuss with you further what you intend to do with the block you have, and whether you could do any further digging re its history which might link it to my car.



I look forward to hearing from you.



Kind Regards



David Alder