New Pure Stock car added to the team

[Verne_Frantz]

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As for the VIN not being there, it depends on the build date of the car. The new Federal VIN law came into effect in the middle of 1968. So the factory actually handstamped the VINs on the top of the bellhousing flange of the engines that went onto the end-of-model-year cars to comply with the new law. You may not have looked there yet. Look in the area where the oil pressure sending unit screws into the block. That outer flange area was where they stamped the VINs. I've seen some 1968 stampings that were half on the block and half on the trans bellhousing.

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Somehow I think only you would know that Steve.

[njsteve]

Thanks Verne.

It was a hit or miss thing as said above. Chrysler was kind of scratching there heads on the where and how of adding the VINs to the engines so they just started stamping them across the top of the back of the assembled drivetrain. That's why you find them on the block, on the block and trans, even on the trans only in that top spot. It wasn't til 69 that the process was formalized with the VINs put on the machined boss of the block, near the oil pan.

But either way, build another block and save that one! It's too valuable to risk.