So... What did I buy?

4eighteener said
Funny, I just read this thread and others and headed over to marketplace and found this;

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Yep, the ladle story is just that. I would like to see the casting date on the teen in your photo. I bet it was a late model 318 towards the end of production. The -xx numbers are revision numbers to the cores and molds.