66 coupe stamp pad

[Michael H.]

Re: Let's see, I still have all my fingers

Kent,

I have the same problem with my fingers now too. Plus, I have to hold them further away to count them because their blury. Even worse is the fact that...after I count, I forget why I counted them in the first place.

I'll be at the January event but not sure where. Probably hang aroung Joe Ray's space, among others.

[John H.]

Re: 66 coupe stamp pad

Chuck -

I'm not talking about the machine stamp date - the "window" runs from the block CASTING date to the car's final assembly date.

[William C.]

Re: It has that crazy 9

Just about 8 hours drive from Flint to St Louis, Normal shipment likely by Train, but if running low at St Louis a truck would be used...

[John H.]

Re: 66 coupe stamp pad

Jack -

Trivia - the line speed never changed, and there was never a wildcat or walkout at the Corvette plant.

[John H.]

Re: 66 coupe stamp pad

Kent -

T0708 is JULY 8th.

[Chuck S.]

Re: 66 coupe stamp pad

Maybe I am missing your point, John...hit me on the head; maybe I'll get it then. You're going to have tell me something that I've missed that clearly shows this pad to be "different from original".

My thinking: Regardless of "The Window" being from the casting date or the machine stamp, the six month rule is STILL an arbitrary rule established by our forefathers after observing dates on a BUNCH of orignal cars.

As the devil's advocate, let me argue that if their combined observations only included plus/minus 2.9 sigma of the full statistical distribution, there could be a few surviving cars out on the ends that initiate discussion regarding authenticity every time they show up on the judging field.

What if the REAL "window" to cover the actual full plus/minus 3 sigma date distribution is 21.5 weeks? (rhetorical; completely speculative) We all know that once an NCRS "RULE" is codified in a reference manual, no sinuglar or "small" event, say a few individual cars every judging season, is going to revise it in our lifetimes. Some would say not till Hell freezes over. (Is this your real point?)

My mistake in contributing to this thread was that John Farren ased for "pad experts"...I'm not a "pad expert", John F, just a guy with some knowledge about Corvettes that is audacious enough to believe I can pick a factory pad (exempting myself from most factory ground-out restamps ) from the most obvious amateurish efforts at fraud.

I stand by my first remark: This pad looks real to me and I would bet with my money...The Window not withstanding. But, because of an arbitrary rule, the NCRS jury is often still out deliberating the value of the car.

Anyway, our dating for exclusivity may be short-lived: My prediction is that, ultimately, as the relative few remaining classic Corvettes grow in demand, rich guys that know little about Corvette numbers will cause "non-matching numbers" cars (OMG...Did I just say that?) to approach the value of true original cars. We are already beginning to see it in other muscle car marques...novices with money are attempting to buy back their youth with big bucks for CLONES...they really DON'T care if the machine stamp date precedes the car's build date. JMHO. ;o)

[John H.]

Re: 66 coupe stamp pad

Chuck -

I wasn't commenting on the pad at all. I was just pointing out that the "six-month window" of acceptability runs back from the car's final assembly date to the block casting date, not to the date stamped on the pad; as long as the pad stamp date is between those two dates, it's fine.

I believe the six-month "window" was developed in order to recognize that some weird things occasionally happened in the production/inventory system, and the "window" accommodates those outliers. I'm not familiar with how much flexibility there may be beyond the "window" for "really weird" outliers.