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Originally Posted by jocko
FWIW, if you're referring to engine originality in your comment - it's worth noting that none of us can prove engine originality with certainty in this era of trucks with a VIN, SPID, or engine suffix code (unless one is THE original owner and knows it for a fact) - we can only decode after the fact that a particular engine "could have been original." VINs only tell us if a truck was originally equipped with a V8 or I6 - and SPID RPOs only highlight if an 'optional' engine in either of those categories was installed originally. Having said all that - because I don't completely trust all the decoding material floating around out there to be gospel, I'm inclined to agree with you that the engine is likely original - but I do show that VO316YV decodes to a 16 March Flint-built 68 327 for a C10 with a manual trans (whereas the SPID shows it was originally an automatic trans truck). I'd say it's too much of a coincidence to NOT be the original engine - but you just never know in this era before partial VINs were stamped on the engines.
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jocko, as you told, it seems sometimes the decoders are not explicit or maybe wrong. Kindly I ask regarding the -YV codes, because as I have exactly the same constallation, 327 -YV with option M49 Turbo Hydramatic, see SPID:
Despite you will find often YV is m/t (manual transmision) according Chevrolet truck part catalog october 1969 is stated that -YV is 327 with 3speed automatic.
And maybe somebody can help me with a similiar problem:
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=799432