More Restamps

[MultiMopars]

You know, I here complaining about this on Mopar sites all the time, but I thought Chevy guys should have been over this YEARS ago. Maybe this is a new generation of guys in the market that are unaware of the history of this.

I was a member of NCRS beginning in 1976. There first skinny little judging manuals had points established first for correct casting number, then correct casting date/time car built, then correct stamped characters. If you entered your car in judging competition with a "reproduuction" engine and all was "right" you were awarded ALL the points. However, if you TOLD the judges that it was not the original born in the car engine, they docked you points. Still wondering why people don't make disclosure about these things?

You guys REALLY don't think that there REALLY are as many "original" engines left in these hipo cars that were bought new to beat the snot out of as people claim do you?

Restamping engines, etc. has been going on for at LEAST 30 years for GM products and probably Fords too.

There was a company in Wisc. that used to advertise in Hemmings print (before Internet) selling engine. They had a big inventory with lots of casting date choices. They also offered pad stamping with correct font characters and rebuilding to stock or non stock specs. This was at least 15 years ago. I believe their name was Engines Unlimited. My point is, this has been going on in the open for a long time.

[RamAirDave]

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My point is, this has been going on in the open for a long time.

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I would say that there are very few here that are unaware that restamping has been going on for decades and how prevalent hammered parts are.

[MultiMopars]

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My point is, this has been going on in the open for a long time.

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I would say that there are very few here that are unaware that restamping has been going on for decades and how prevalent hammered parts are.

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I haven't been here long enough to know what the general membership is like. I am 59 years old and have been involved in the hobby for 40 years.

I have seen a lot of things evolve in those 40 years. We currently have a 2nd and the beginnings of a 3rd generation of guys in the hobby from when I got involved.

I can say that some of the younger guys have a very unrealistic idea of how things were when these old cars were new. I sometimes have to chuckle at their thoughts that these old muscle cars got some kind of special treatment when they were built. They were just another sales commodity as far as the manufacturers were concerned. However, today some seem to think that they were treated anything differently than a new station wagon.

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

Thanks Darryl!