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How religious was the factory about body numbers?
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08/17/09 10:15 AM
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I've been working on my very original slant 6 70 Challenger and it appears to be missing the body number stampings on the core support and trunk rail.....The cowl number is there and matches the VIN. This car is definitely original metal....Did the factory sometimes forget to stamp these numbers?
Take care,
Rick
68 Coronet R/T 440 & 68 Charger 528 Hemi,and 5 Challengers! 6 cyl, 318, 360, 383, 451
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Re: How religious was the factory about body numbers?
[Re: HemiRick]
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08/17/09 12:11 PM
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I've been working on my very original slant 6 70 Challenger and it appears to be missing the body number stampings on the core support and trunk rail.....The cowl number is there and matches the VIN. This car is definitely original metal....Did the factory sometimes forget to stamp these numbers?
I encountered the same lack of body stampings on both the radiator core support and cowl on a second `Cuda 440-6 (BS23V0E133XXX) that I owned from about 1980 until 1989. It was clearly original sheetmetal in that case as well...
Mistakes happened, I remember a 1970 GTX with a VIN engine code of "7"... as in RS2370XXXXXXX.
XS
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Re: How religious was the factory about body numbers?
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08/17/09 12:46 PM
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I had a '71 Plymouth Barracuda that had no numbers in the core support. All original paint and had never been wrecked in the front (knew the owner since '72).
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Re: How religious was the factory about body numbers?
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08/17/09 04:48 PM
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Hard to imagine that many cars slipped out with NO stampings, but mistakes were quite common. My 70 V code R/T has the last few digits transposed from the body to the VIN.
MB
My 70 Cahllenger R/T SE has two numbers transposed too.
so does my 70 challenger r/t
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Re: How religious was the factory about body numbers?
[Re: Robert1050]
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08/17/09 09:39 PM
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For the guys with 1970 LA built & 1970 Hamtramck built cars, please register & let me know what your body number errors are? There are some cars out there with B-Body VINs on E-Bodies from LA, & some numbers appear to have been struck on more than one body. If enough folks register & provide that info it would help me figure out, well, something.  The radiator support numbers can be on the top or on the back side, & anywhere from about the center to clear over by the battery, so look close. To register; http://www.hamtramck-historical.com/register.shtml
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Re: How religious was the factory about body numbers?
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08/19/09 07:14 PM
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They were there, on the core support, but on the back side rather than the top where I was looking....
Take care,
Rick
68 Coronet R/T 440 & 68 Charger 528 Hemi,and 5 Challengers! 6 cyl, 318, 360, 383, 451
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Re: How religious was the factory about body numbers?
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08/19/09 10:57 PM
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I know of a couple of original paint /sheetmetal '70-1 E-bodies that never had the radiator support stamped. In fact, another is on 'Cudaworld right now that is missing the rad and cowl #'s! It is an unrestored original paint '71 'Cuda. LA plant cars typically are stamped on top of the support, while Hamtramck car are stamped on the side facing the raditor tank. Here is the link to the no stamping '71 340 'Cuda http://cudaworld.com/adDetail.php?cat_id=10&sub_id=0&ad_id=2209
Last edited by 70440+6bbl; 08/26/09 03:17 PM.
'70 Super Bee 440 6 pack 4-spd 4.10 Dana N96 EB5
‘70 Super Bee 440 6 pack 4-spd 3.54 Dana FC7
‘70 ‘Cuda 440+6bbl 4-spd 3.54 Dana N96 EB5 V1W
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Re: How religious was the factory about body numbers?
[Re: BigMoneyLewis]
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08/20/09 07:52 AM
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Not a great picture, but this is of a cowl stamping from what all indications appeared to be an untampered with ordinary 71 Challenger 383.
Perhaps some members have, but I have never seen one stamped this far out on an E-body cowl area.
From looking and feeling underneath, cowl area appeared original, smooth top and bottom, and stamped fonts and stamp pictured on front edge, appeared to be factory.
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Re: How religious was the factory about body numbers?
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08/20/09 09:25 AM
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buddys superbird has no stamped numbers and we are 100% sure its original metal
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Re: How religious was the factory about body numbers?
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08/20/09 11:47 PM
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I have seen a Challenger that had the cowl number stamped 7 times - all the stamps were in between the cowl screens.
my friends '70 challenger has the cowl number stamped five times...
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