Casting in iron, and making an 'I' distinct in comparison to a '1' is difficult.
My statement that it reads '119' is probably 'I19'. It's the 9 that we needed to complete the puzzle.īruceman1968, thanx for your input.
You really don't need to look for the I, because we know it's sept from the engine block stamped code V0924WK. Your block was CAST on the 1st or the 11th and it was ASSEMBLED on the 24th of sept. Then the block gets machined and then assembled. With the block casting date it just tells when the block was cast. So your 11 is either the 11TH of sept or it's I19 for sept, 1 1969. So We know that September 24 is the engine ASSEMBLY date, so the block casting date must be eariler. From your engine stamp code V0924WK, V= flint, 09 = september, 24 = the day, and WK is the suffix code. With block castings sometimes letters or numbers get unreadable or gone from the casting process. Your casting number narrowed it down to 1969, and the WK suffix code gave us the rest.
But that doesn't matter, The 9, the last number, is what we wanted cause that says 59, 69, or 79.
well it should either be I119 or I19 OR it's 119 and the I is missing. Next one or two numbers is the day of the month, and the last number is the last number of the year. To decode the first (only) letter is the month, A= jan., B=feb., C=mar., I=sept. Chev, The casting date is usually 1 letter then 3 numbers, But not always.
