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Don has given you the correct location and vital information and I can only add personal experience.

While my motor was out I checked mine to see if it was the factory block. It was but the stamp was VERY hard to read and not at all orderly. I took a picture of it but all that shows is blue paint.
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Had a good look today and did find numbers stamped at the back where they are meant to be but pretty well impossible to work them out, could work out a few of the numbers but not all of them Rolleyes
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After many years of mustangs, convertibles and Mach 1 cars I now have a very different opinion that I did in earlier years when I used to think that it all had to be numbers matching.

Me personally I could care less at all. This is because I currently now have an (H code ) 1970 Mach 1 that I went ahead and installed most all of the OEM and rare and hard to find original options that my car never had like A/C, Rare map light and trunk light, louvers etc etc... I think that I now rather care more about Ford originality more so than the Marti report on what it originally came with.
Sure a top loader 4 speed tranny is nice, but a five or 6 speed is better in my book. The same goes for me taking out my top loader and replacing it with an AOD tranny for ease of use in Denver traffic.

We can all see that the restomod cars garner more on the Barret Jackson auctions than most concourse cars do unless they are extremely rare like a Shelby or Dusenburg.Sad

The younger guys like the 4 wheel disc breaks and fuel injection more so than the carbs I guess.Undecided
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(08-06-2013, 06:16 AM)Masterblaster7212 Wrote: After many years of mustangs, convertibles and Mach 1 cars I now have a very different opinion that I did in earlier years when I used to think that it all had to be numbers matching.

Me personally I could care less at all. This is because I currently now have an (H code ) 1970 Mach 1 that I went ahead and installed most all of the OEM and rare and hard to find original options that my car never had like A/C, Rare map light and trunk light, louvers etc etc... I think that I now rather care more about Ford originality more so than the Marti report on what it originally came with.
Sure a top loader 4 speed tranny is nice, but a five or 6 speed is better in my book. The same goes for me taking out my top loader and replacing it with an AOD tranny for ease of use in Denver traffic.

We can all see that the restomod cars garner more on the Barret Jackson auctions than most concourse cars do unless they are extremely rare like a Shelby or Dusenburg.Sad

The younger guys like the 4 wheel disc breaks and fuel injection more so than the carbs I guess.Undecided

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