Looking for production info on verifying 1968 Charger R/T 440 originality

[Bill Clay]

Well now we are getting somewhere! Thank you for the detailed explanations!

So the fender tag is likely a repro installed during "restoration" that's ok. The owner has the original broadcast sheet in a frame. I saw it myself - the form is printed with somewhat light blue ink. He was never concerned with the car's originality, just its condition and that it had the right goods, if not necessarily the original goods. Yes, I can see how someone would think it very clever to search high and low for a replacement engine that has an assembly date close to what the original should be and transplant it into the car - it may have happened that way.

I posted in the BaT thread that there is some sort of illegible stamping at the back of the engine, but it didn't look like the stampings I've seen pics of elsewhere. I do not have a picture - the mech and I could barely make it out.

Here is a pic of the transmission stamping on the opposite side from the VIN. Can we determine if this is still a 3-speed TorqueFlight?

[BLK 68 R/T]

Yes, the transmission is a 3 speed torqueflight as evidenced by the VIN saying that it came from a RR 
also to clarify from a way earlier post of mine, the .010 undersize was in reference to the main/rod bearings and not the cylinder bore. Sorry for not clarifying 

[Bill Clay]

Thank you sir! That makes more sense than differences in bores between engines. And I realize that there was only one 3-speed automatic tranny at that time, but I try to keep my deduced assumptions to a minimum. 

[Mytur Binsdirti]

By chance, was the frame pulled or did it have a trailer hitch?

[68pplcharger]

 

[Bill Clay]

We have no history on the car unfortunately - only what we see, what you see is what you get.

I know little about spotting autobody work - what do you see that suggests a frame pull? The elongated holes in the rails?

[mightywing7]

Just watched the auction.  Ended at $37,500 unsold.  Reserve not met.

[Bill Clay]

Yup. Will most likely be listed here and elsewhere soon...

[tan top]

it does have:  

early air cleaner
early steering wheel
early Red/White/Blue interior door emblems (can you post a good clear photo of one?  please!)
early vent pull handles
early deck lid
early tail light panel supports

not sure where BC has gone  
this is the best I can do from the original , picture in the ad !

[Mytur Binsdirti]

Doesn't look like a bad car, but being that it's a non-numbers-matching driver quality car with some paint/bodywork, seat and other detail issues, I'd say that 37 1/2 large is pretty much top dollar that I'd want to pay for the vehicle.

[6bblgt]

looks like a nice early car with most of the differences still intact,
but dare I say - typical flipper - or would that be stating an unfair assumption? or fact?

[tan top]

Doesn't look like a bad car, but being that it's a non-numbers-matching driver quality car with some paint/bodywork, seat and other detail issues, I'd say that 37 1/2 large is pretty much top dollar that I'd want to pay for the vehicle.

  yep agreed


  looks ok ! good !   from a distance ,      yes !  closer you look  has things wrong  , but ! don't look that much of a biggie to put right , should you wish      nice charger  

looks like a nice early car with most of the differences still intact,
but dare I say - typical flipper - or would that be stating an unfair assumption? or fact?

    Agreed      on both accounts    

    think  BC  , just wanted to make sure  , the Charger he was selling, or  was helping to sell  ,  was correct  ,   !!

&  came to the right place  , for charger info ,    

[tan top]

 

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