Did they stamp vin on early blocks?

Here she is in all her glory. When i first brought it home it was parked for about 6 years. My uncle backed off a curb and trashed the lower control arm. He bought a new car and let this one sit. He drove the car 1.5 miles a day to the same gas station to get a sandwhich and a beer for its last 20 years on the road. He was unfortunatly a huge horder and when he passed my family asked if i could come help clean out the house. When i pulled up the car was on a flat bed headed to become god know what. Like i said i paid the man and he took the car back off. After what seemed like weeks of cleaning the house out i found the title and the keys for the car and wouldnt you know it a spare control arm. I drug the car back to my house put the control arm on redid all the suspension front and rear. Put a new fuel tank and sender a new carb,adjusted the valves and fired her up with no problems. I put about 100k miles on it before i heard a rod knock and parked it about 4 months ago. Just got the motor back and the boys ready for me to finish "his car".

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