Misstamped cowl

[royal67rs]

My 68 has a misstamp on the cowl. Has anyone seen this before?  It should read 8l341406

[bertfam]

Yes, it happened once in awhile.

If you looks close, it appears the cowl has 18L341406 with a 1 struck above the 0. Can you get a clearer picture of the cowl stamping?

Ed

[royal67rs]

I will try to to get a better pic tomorrow.

[royal67rs]

Ed, here are some better pics.

[bertfam]

Yes, going by the pictures, they match. If you look carefully at the heater box location (Upper picture below), you'll see that the last three digits are 406 with the 4 and 0 being lower than the rest of the VIN. On the cowl (lower picture below), what I thought was a 1 next to the 6 is actually the dividing line of the stamp.

The cowl was stamped lighter than the heater box, so that's why it's hard to make out.






Ed

[JohnZ]

A stamping of this nature isn't unusual - the rotating segments of the "egg" stamper didn't index fully or mis-indexed from stamping the previous car's partial VIN.

[royal67rs]

Thanks for the info. Interesting stuff! Bob