Broach Marks

[William L.]

Re: Broach Marks

Bill,
My body build date is K 16 and my St Louis body # is S8822. Body is St.Louis. The neat thing about my Trim Tag is that it has a typo for color, it should be 983AA. Took me a long time to track down the original owner to verify the color and also have Al Grenning validate that it is a typo.

Rick

Rick
I know everybody has a story to tell as to why there car is special to them. One of the thing's that makes my car a little more special to me is that my 67's body build date is K23 (June 23) that is also my Birthday. I'm just 20 years older than my car. I dint think to many guys own a Corvette that was built on there Birthday.

[Patrick T.]

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This is the engine pad on my 67 and broach marks are very easy to see. But like John said some broach marks are very very faint. I like to take a picture of the pad and then you can zoom in and see what you have?

Bill, I see you have that typical factory "rebound stamp" of the 6JE. I have that on my pad also. I've had people tell me my pad is a fake restamp!

[John H.]

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I dint think to many guys own a Corvette that was built on there Birthday.

Bill -

Close.....my '69 Z/28 was built on my birthday, and I was in the plant (Norwood) the day it was built (but didn't know it, of course).

[Jacob A.]

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Bill -

Close.....my '69 Z/28 was built on my birthday, and I was in the plant (Norwood) the day it was built (but didn't know it, of course).

That's really cool!!! Actually all these # coincidences are really cool.

My 1967 435 Roadster is body # 1967, I had Noland Adams check my trim tag and vin tag and sign the glove box accordingly.

Question about pad originality.... wouldn't the pads have been painted at the factory while the engine was being painted.

Very Best,
Jacob

[William L.]

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Bill -

Close.....my '69 Z/28 was built on my birthday, and I was in the plant (Norwood) the day it was built (but didn't know it, of course).

John
WOW how cool is that. That would have been something if you would have taken a picture and your Z28 just happened to have been in it!!

[Terry M.]

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Question about pad originality.... wouldn't the pads have been painted at the factory while the engine was being painted.

Very Best,
Jacob

Among the many painting instructions (over one page single spaced) to the engine assembly plant employees are the instructions NOT to paint the pad area -- at least not until the SB engines became blue (And by then BB were long gone from Corvettes.). There are a whole bunch of other areas that were not painted, most of them because something screwed into a threaded hole or something attached to a surface.

[Andrew S.]

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I finally got some shots of my pad. I'd appreciate any opinions about it's authenticity. THANKS!

[William L.]

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Andy
Broach marks are there and the #'s look typical to me. I'm sure some others will chime in. Good luck with your car. Bill

[Edward M.]

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I finally got some shots of my pad. I'd appreciate any opinions about it's authenticity. THANKS!

Hard to tell from these pics. Did you have your flash on when you took these. If so, turn the flash off and take some more pics. Post those pics

[Roy B.]

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You gentlemen like talking about broach marks and double stamping , this will keep the discussion going

[William L.]

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You gentlemen like talking about broach marks and double stamping , this will keep the discussion going

Roy
I love it! What's the story about it? There has to be a story....

[Richard M.]

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Roy
I love it! What's the story about it? There has to be a story....

we're waiting........

hmmm, did he go to Florida? He said he was going in Nov. Maybe sitting poolside in the Keys sipping on Pina Coladas

[John D.]

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The pad in roy's pic looks like the vin derivative stamp was missed by the worker on the line and the repairman stamped the numbers one at a time on the motor line while it was moving. It could have been close to lunch time and his ham sandwich and Fresca was waiting for him......

[Andrew S.]

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We finally had a day without rain in Chicago and I was able to get a few non-flash pics of my pad. I threw in my trim & vin tags for the heck of it, too.

Thanks!

Andy

[David D.]

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You gentlemen like talking about broach marks and double stamping , this will keep the discussion going

This happened when the end of shift horn sounded and the guy was beat feetin it out the door.....