decode this please

Sep 05, 2006 8 Replies
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just brought home a new ride. unlike many of you I have room and money for only one at a time, sold the four door daytona and got me a 64 two door hard top daytona, yes I know all about hard top noise and flex. mine does neither at this time, a plus. I have the car on stands now and am checking it all over, the engine block stamp reads vm325. v%9, m =the month and 3 = year and 25 day.per the shop manuel.



I have only ten fingers but m is the 13th month? so is this jan 64? why would that not be v A 4 25? what is this? if it was jan 65 would't it be vm525? I dunno. anybody got a good guess?Rich



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Dont have a manual with me today but I believe they skipped "I" because they used the capital I as the number 1

Thus mÞcember 1963 25th day , a Christmas engine.

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November 25, 1963... 259 V-8

The letters "I" and "L" were not used in the nubering system

Lee DeLaBarre Daytona62

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There is no "I" month, so it's Dec 63

am not r2 wrote:

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Hell, didn't know about the L month being deleted too, you sure ?

Lee wrote:

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That is a pretty car. As much as you hear about rattles and flex (My '59 hardtop did both, a lot, but I think rusty floors were a major part of that) I you look at pictures of the factory Studebaker that ran the Shell 4000 and Trans-Canadian Rallies in the early '60's, many were hard tops. Go figure. Joe Roberts

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thanks guys. I reread the entire page this time and sure enough they skipped those letters. thanks again,rich

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