Is this 499 dist. real or fake?

[HiHorse]

web page
here it is...last pic shows the machined lines

[ratbox]

That's what I said - NO reason whatsoever why a housing would be turned/machined EXCEPT to REMOVE previously stamped numbers .

So unless someone can come up with the info , that GM did this (And it make NO sense whatsoever as far as labor costs , if they made a mistake in stamping - it would be stamped over with lines or x's - then restamped).

I'm calling it phony (but I am always eager/happy to learn something - if anyone has corroborating info.).

[Xplantdad]

One of the pictures in that ad shows the lines?

[Keith Tedford]

All of my old distributors have a pretty ratty looking finish on the machined diameter, like the pictures Hihorse shows above. All have the step at the top but are machined there too. For what it's worth. If you are worried about it having been machined and re-stamped, just compare the diameter to a known distributor.

[firstgenaddict]

That shiny one that looks like it has been in a lathe is Questionable at BEST~

[P.J.]

not only has it been on a lathe and cut it has also been polished on the lathe with 400 emery.
PJ

[Jerry@CHP]

The lathe feed lines are 180 degrees from where the numbers are rolled in (last photo). This dist has been sanded where the numbers are rolled onto the housing. It has two different petinas.

Jerry