fastmark
Well-Known Member
I agree with Rick that the HC stamping means High Compression and should be for a 65 or a 68 SS car. When I had my 65 lightweight, I inspected a few blocks. One was here locally that I found long after I sold my car. We had a dragstrip here in the 60 called steamboat mountain and several SS and lightweights cars raced here. One 65 was even sold here new. Gene Snow used to race here, I know for sure. I have no idea where this block had come from but a guy had it here that he had bought locally and I never knew about it. He had several blocks that had all be used up in fuel racing. This one would have been just an expensive conversion piece. There is another reason I did not want the block but that’s another story. Lol. Any way it was stamped AH 426 HC. The bottom row had an assembly date of early 65 and the builders initial stamped in after that. I saw another original 65 SS block in Dallas at a car show in a regular car. It was not even a real hemi car. He got the motor from a racer.
