lol, I'm never discouraged, delusional or exhibiting lack of faith. I didn't buy this car to flip it or because of it's monetary value. I bought it for sentimental reasons, as I owned one in late December 1968 brand new as a teenager. This one is probably 99% original and I pose questions here and elsewhere as I would researching anything to bring it back as new. I'm not concerned with those who hold knowledge m
LOL, first of all you are taking a simple question and twisting it into a lecture by partly defining my statement about build dates. I don't get discouraged over silly things like inanimate objects or their monetary value. It's a quest to put a car back together that is 99% original. The question was a simple query about the speculative date that might be on a part based on other facts. Pretty simple I thought and expected some form of answer based on other original cars and their parts. Such as, my cars build date is 2/26/69, the engine date is 12/10/68, knowing that it's a numbers matching car I now know (according to others) that typically motors are built approx. 2 months ahead of the body leading me to think that the exhaust manifold would be a few months prior to that ie ; 10/10/68. The body stamp on the trunk rail is 1/30/69. That's all.
