2 Different Vins.... one 1969 Muncie Transmission

[TAR6569]

That is interesting so St Louis had 2 partial vin stampers?

[TimG]

Not all years, but in 1967 they did. The transmission stamp included the "S".

[RCH]

Originally Posted by TimG

It looks like they forgot to advance the number on the one transmission and corrected that with the second stamp.

Here's the transmission stamp on my very early 1967 Corvette #350. This was the first year they used the letter S in the transmission on Corvettes. Of course, they forgot to advance the numbers for the transmission to 350. The Warranty Plate date of manufacture for the transmission matches the date on the transmission and the unit has never been out of the car. I'm sure this was not at all uncommon. Thank goodness they got the pad stamp correct.

Looks like a stamper to me. LOL

[70 copo]

Mixing letters and numbers can create slight spacing differences within the gang especially if the MFG of an individual stamp made it to a different spacing specification for the characters or older stamps were mixed in to the gang with newer stamps and used together.

I have identified three different stamp vendors that GM used at Norwood - all prior to the advent of VIN font stamps which changed the appearance entirely.