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Old 02-07-2021, 11:01 PM   #11
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Re: The Green Machine - 1963 C50 field rescue

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Thats a nice truck you have there! Also a great idea for growing hops too, we used to grow our own hops for home brewing.
The engine code has me puzzled- do you have better pictures of the entire engine? XTO suffix code doesn't seem to exist in any of the books (including The Lime Book) or on websites. The S is Saginaw engine factory and 0304 is March 4th. But the XTO is throwing me and it almost looks like XTC but even that one doesn't exist. There is a TC suffix but that is a 348 big block (which would be appropriate for 1963) and it doesn't resemble a 327. XTD is a service replacement engine 283 for 1965, 66 and 67 but would be tough to read that as a 'D'
Hope you are not getting sick of me yet. Now looking closer at the stamp, it looks like 2 separate stamps overlapping. Does that make sense? So we might be looking at 2 stamps, first CE6N22896 then S0304XTC. Wonder what that means!
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