[Duc Hunter]

Just catching up. All good questions. Many of the series numbers posted look a lot more pretty for sure. That said I have also seen some wonky looking real serial numbers on blocks that have never been touched, they were all hand stamped. Even the horizontal scratches I have see on a few simply from cleaning and scraping with wire brushes, wire wheels, etc. to clean decades of crap off a metal case. These engines were, for a time, not worth any real money (which is a shame). To grind off a number a re-stamp it means shortening the boss that the stamping is in by the depth of the original stamp plus a little. I wonder if there is a measurement of that boss thickness from the factory?

I will get a pic of the type number. The seller was there when it was taken out of its original car. As to John Walkers comment, as I understand it that case was never machined. I will ask that question though. How would I determine if it had been?

For the record, I get nothing for this if it gets to the right car. Just trying to help a friend out, and reunite a car and its block. The guy who has it is someone I trust though.