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If you compared 100, 1969 440 blocks (which were all machined at the Trenton Michigan engine plant), the VIN pad should look pretty much the same. They consistantly used a certain diameter cutter to machine the pad.
I don't think this VIN pad has been tampered with other than a little Scotch Brite disc to clean it off.


I agree. A hand grinder would not look that good. It could just be an end mill with a little wore spot on it to make a mark. This crowd suspects fraud in every post>



I'm not suspecting fraud, just that the marks don't look like they were original milling marks. There is no way that VIN pad had any numbers stamped on it and no way were they ground off even if there were any there in the first place. Look closely at the top angled part of the VIN pad, it's as originally milled and not any wider or lower. Not fraud but not original factory marks either.