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K member date code #3035541
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I know this is an old subject that returns periodically, just like the flu, but here it goes: I have a 69 Hemi bird built at the St. Louis plant and somebody asked me for the date code stamped on the k member, so I said okay, but now I forgot the exact place to find it. So this is what I would like: where in tarnation is that code? Thank you, guys.

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about in the middle facing forward scope

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Originally Posted by A12
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This picture is a 1970 and later K member, not a 1969 and earlier or a 426 Hemi or 440 HP motor K member with the skid plate they came with stock scope

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Originally Posted by Cab_Burge
Originally Posted by A12
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This picture is a 1970 and late K member, not a 1969 and earlier or a 426 Hemi or 440 HP motor K member with the skid plate they came with stock scope


Actually that's a late 1969 or 1969-1/2 A12 style K-frame that would soon become the 1970 K-frame. The shape of the openings had to change from the '68/'69 K-frame to accommodate the front sway bar on the '70 to go through the K-frame instead of in front of it. If you look at this K-frame where the '70 sway bar pivot/bushings are to be mounted you'll see the mounting holes are not drilled through. The holes are there in the bottom half but not through on the top half of this '69-1/2 K-frame. I shouldn't say this out loud but this is one of the "tell tales" of a correct A12 car. I know this because I did the text and that's a photo I took of my spare late '69 K-frame.

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Here's a late '69 383 RR that I owned with the '69-1/2 - '70 to be K-frame with the '70 sway bar opening and drilled on the bottom half but not all the way through yet.

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Originally Posted by Cab_Burge
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This picture is a 1970 and later K member, not a 1969 and earlier or a 426 Hemi or 440 HP motor K member with the skid plate they came with stock scope


I thought only the Hemi motors came with the skid plate because of the weight of the Hemi motor versus the lighter 440, 383 motors? My '69 440 hp GTX does not have a skid plate and neither does my '69 (-1/2) A12 6BBL 440 HP2 Road Runner. I've only seen the skid plates on the Hemi's in '68/'69. Can't speak for the '70 440 HP's or newer but still think the '70 Hemi K-frames had a skid plate?

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So, from what you guys are saying, on a 69 Hemi car the skid plate covers the stamp, right?

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Originally Posted by robertop
So, from what you guys are saying, on a 69 Hemi car the skid plate covers the stamp, right?


No, the skid plate is welded to the bottom. The date is on the front of the K-frame facing the radiator support.

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Aw, okay, now I got it! On the other hand, I laid down in front of my car with a flashlight and looked at the very front of the K member but there are no numbers. This does not surprise me much, since my original radiator support has no date on the back either. One of these days when my laptop will be ready I will surprise few members with what is "wrong" with my car with photos back when I bought it and when it was put back together. Wait for it!

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Originally Posted by robertop
Aw, okay, now I got it! On the other hand, I laid down in front of my car with a flashlight and looked at the very front of the K member but there are no numbers. This does not surprise me much, since my original radiator support has no date on the back either. One of these days when my laptop will be ready I will surprise few members with what is "wrong" with my car with photos back when I bought it and when it was put back together. Wait for it!




Oops St. Louis assembly plant but have you looked on the top of the radiator support for the numbers? The K-frame stampings are from some that I've seen done with a very "sharp" thin line stamp and may need to have some paint removed that easily fills the stamping in sometimes.

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Also it a lot of times depends on the available light and the angle of view. Sometimes you can get an idea of where it might be located by the "indent" that the stamp makes from the force of the impact making it. See how the K-frame is indented.

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