66 427 Pad Stamp Restamp?

[SuperNovaSS]

OK, I understand now. The side with the VIN on it has not been ground down. There are only a few possible reasons this block was separated from the car:

1) This is the original engine block to the car and it was swapped out with another block at some point in time for a unknown reason.

2) This is the original block and it was pulled during a restoration because someone thought it was a restamp. Which would probably mean a restamped block was put in its place(highly unlikely since this block would like up perfect date wise with the Vette in question)

3) This block was restamped for the Vette and the original block was found later.



It would be interesting to see the block in his car. However, I imagine if it is Top Flight, it probably has a nicely restamped engine in it if this is in fact its original block.

One thing is for certain, this block has sat in a machine shop for decades. Any restamping that happened would have had to have happened before then. The machine shop I got it from argued with me that the only identifying mark on a BBC was the casting number. They knew nothing about suffix codes or even pad stamps.


Jason

[JohnZ]

Looks like a fairly common engine plant grind-out pad; I have a number of images of known engine plant grind-out pads in my files, and Al Grenning has hundreds of them. They were re-stamped by repairmen, and they didn't always have access to gang holders.

[SuperNovaSS]

Thanks! I received one reply from the owner of the Vette. He said he was having a busy week and hoped to get back to me this weekend.


Jason