1969 440 HP block

[340runner]

Found block WS23L92 44 48
Rest of info in pics

 

[MarkLevi]

I suppose we can only guess at the balance of this mis-stamp. I'm pretty sure Lynch and St. Louis built Coronet R/Ts in '69 - not sure if Los Angeles did also? Early October '69 engine build...couple months worth of production into that point - could the VIN be missing the 1st digit "1"?....seems too early to have a leading digit "2" but others on here would know better than I.

WS23L9A124448
WS23L9G124448

?

 

[340runner]

I suppose we can only guess at the balance of this mis-stamp. I'm pretty sure Lynch and St. Louis built Coronet R/Ts in '69 - not sure if Los Angeles did also? Early October '69 engine build...couple months worth of production into that point - could the VIN be missing the 1st digit "1"?....seems too early to have a leading digit "2" but others on here would know better than I.

WS23L9A124448
WS23L9G124448

?

How rare are mis stamps anyways? I don't care, unless someone wants to pay me a premium because its a hp block for their restoration I'm gonna build it for my street/strip effort, but it seems cool and kind of interesting

 

[MarkLevi]

I don't know - they don't seem uncommon. With the odds so slim any of the items in this forum will be reunited with their original "stuff", you've probably got your builder. Once in a blue moon, there's a successful re-connection here - makes the trying all worthwhile to me.