[shor]

Clint seemed very nice and honest with me in my phone conversations with him. He told me that the block had been decked by a prior rebuild but the vin was still there by the oil filter location. He told me that he didn't think it was the original block based on an early casting date.(jan)
I told him my car's original block is a jan casting, march assembly, and 05 body build date.
Clint's engine is probably original based on that info.
Why would someone go thru the trouble to restamp a vin but not the MN code on the pad? And why use a Jan casting? An uninformed forger would not use such an "early" block against conventional wisdom. Clint also told me that the trans is a 70 or 71 unit. Listen....the car is a full restoration basket case. The value is in the title/vin/tag.
It is a project that will take quite some time and money.