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AAR Cuda' 8 3/4 third member paint stamp I.D. help

Started by 76orangewagon, August 03, 2018, 04:28:03 PM

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76orangewagon

I have a nice original low mileage AAR Cuda 8 3/4 third member I am getting ready to rebuild to use in my 1971 Cuda since I can't seem to find a correct date coded 71' housing to match my 430 SPD. There are lots of paint daubs and markings I have found but there is one white paint stamp on the pinion barrel up near the yoke I can't figure out and want to reproduce all the factory marks after rebuild . Any help would be greatly appreciated. The top three pictures are of the stamp mark in question.


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76orangewagon

I'm referring to the first 2 photo's in the original post...sorry I didn't mean to confuse everybody by adding additional photo's of the other marks and stamps found on the Third Member. It looks like maybe a 10 and a H over each other.

anlauto

Those details would not be correct for your car, so why worry about it ? The details correct to your car are long gone  :'(
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76orangewagon

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Quote from: anlauto on August 04, 2018, 09:54:29 AM
Those details would not be correct for your car, so why worry about it ? The details correct to your car are long gone  :'(

Trust me I have thought about that more than once, right or wrong, here's my answer..I originally wanted to restore the car using all the parts I had added from that Go Mango AAR I stripped out 28 years ago, like I said in my Restoration thread this car has tons of sentimental value to me the way it was when I bought it back a few years ago but the deeper I have got into the restoration and the quest for date coded parts to put it back to Day 1 status and have ended up selling off most of the AAR parts the less it is my original car. Since I can't locate a correct date coded 489 housing I am going to use what I have and hopefully retain some of the memories from 28 years ago along the way, since the marks and numbers that are there, I will re-create them to the best of my ability. Is it wrong from a 100% accuracy standpoint..yes, but since are they correct for the rear, I will use them. The car isn't going to be judged in any concourse shows so I'm okay with the end results.