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Originally Posted by NorCam

My 69 Z/28 was a race car for many decades and the original housing was still in it. With the perches moved a couple times, ladder bar brackets welded on and all of the twisting it had over the years, the thing was looking like a boomerang if you know what I mean.

Numbers were no longer on the tube to be seen as the ladder bar brackets went over the build date numbers with any welds or grinding marks left to take care of any other remnants on the old stamp. Housing was so bent up that I simply sold it for the parts it had in it. The rest was considered junk and looked just like the subject diff does in this post. I think I got $1000 for the sum of it in parts given it had race disks, a spool, HD yoke and an Ultimate cover. The rest in my opinion was worthless after being hacked up, ground and welded upon. I don't know how any original stamp could survive that, and if its twisted as mine was, the value is in the toilet IMHO.

If you wanted to save it bad enough it could be fixed. I am going to widen a few 12 bolts I have back to stock width. As for the rear in question Matt knows his stuff and it does have a value. He lives in one of the old drag race hot beds. Those parts are still floating around. I got a 69 ZL1 block from a sprint car driver. Matts 68 Z was picked apart when he put it on Ebay. It was a real car. Mistakes can be made but if HE questioned it he would have it in the add. I found it funny when I had a 69 302 CE engine on Craigslist and found it as a topic on one of the sites. Research, be diligent. If it's not for you don't buy it