COPO BE rear on craigslist

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Fast67VelleN2O</div><div class="ubbcode-body">

Honestly, this looks like a BL stamp to me that someone altered. The only way I would ever say this *might* be legit was if it had a correctly dated COPO posi unit and ring and pinion in it and it was in &quot;as found&quot; condition and not painted or fluffed. </div></div>


Exactly....on the dated COPO R&amp;P portion of the comment.

I am not going to offer opinion either way on the subject rear end. What I will say is that the obliteration marks are consistent with a known manufacturing plant correction technique as recalled to me by the spring and axle line workers.

It is troubling that segments in hobby keep calling most everything with a stamp deviation that does not fit a narrow interpretation fake. If we do this most all of the time we are collectively doomed to learn nothing new before the &quot;living past&quot; transitions into history.

The living past in my statement is in reference to still living line workers who installed these assemblies.

Of course the matter is sealed and left to us to figure out what we can - when remaining workers who can tell us what happened eventually pass away.

That is when this portion of the hobby truly passes into the historical context.