'63 Impala, 409/425hp, Black on Red, Ex Reggie Jackson Collection
 

Not sure what to make of the engine stamp, but the trim tag looks real and calls out the factory 4-speed option. Beautiful car for sure, and I believe the claim that there's been $100k+ invested into the restoration.

Link to 1963 Impala 409/425hp auction

https://cdn.dealeraccelerate.com/cmc...evrolet-impala

https://cdn.dealeraccelerate.com/cmc...evrolet-impala

https://cdn.dealeraccelerate.com/cmc...evrolet-impala

Looks like someone tried to duplicate the broach marks with a hand scraper or chisel, appears to be restamped too.

That’s the worst attempt at faking broach marks that I’ve seen.

Wow.

What Helmut said.

LOL , reminds me of the bottom section of my old screen door, when we use to own dogs,...all scratched all up from wanting outside ...yea that’s pretty brutal

Interior has been changed from black originally to the current red guts.

Great stance!

More Sad is the fact that someone will buy it without knowing any better :(

no 7000 RPM tach???

Obviously someone scraped and damaged the pad. I believe the 409 did not have the traditional small/ big blocks, fore-aft broach marks, although there were circular machine markings. Hopefully a 409 guru can shed some light...

That is pretty sad, scratching lines with an awl or something. I went through this with Verne a couple years ago. Apparently the relatively small volumes of 348/409 engines didn't justify the expense of the big planing machine that did that operation for the small blocks (and later big blocks). Thus production used a rotary machining operation for preparing the 74 degree deck surface of the W motors.

Looks like that would be easy to copy.

I’m not sure-they look kinda like regular broach marks where none of the lines intersect. You’d have to use a very large diameter, uniform grinding surface that came down on the surface flat and didn’t move laterally.

A friend of mine has a machine that is used for resurfacing heads and blocks that makes the same pattern when it cuts. It has a large wheel with carbide inserts. It made that same pattern on my heads when we cut them.

This one is back on the block for $53k - in the link below.

Link to 1963 Impala auction

https://cdn.dealeraccelerate.com/cmc...evrolet-impala

West Chester. My Alma Mater and still only 25 mins away :)