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I'm somewhat new to Vette's, and I have recently bought a corvette 435hp car with an original 69 L89 block ( T0702LP ), that does not have my car's vin, but production number 24390.
I don't know what value this block has, but it's one of three hundred production L89 blocks in existence for that year I guess. Does anyone have any suggestions on what to do with this block?

Is is possible to do a national VIN # search to try to track down the car this originally came in?
 
Logdigital said:
I'm somewhat new to Vette's, and I have recently bought a corvette 435hp car with an original 69 L89 block ( T0702LP ), that does not have my car's vin, but production number 24390.
I don't know what value this block has, but it's one of three hundred production L89 blocks in existence for that year I guess. Does anyone have any suggestions on what to do with this block?

Is is possible to do a national VIN # search to try to track down the car this originally came in?

Welcome to the :CAC

As you may know, the L-89 was an add-on option to the L-71 option. The difference was aluminum heads, rather than cast iron.

Are you saying that your "heads" are aluminum?
 
To make a long story short, the car was found in a warehouse, had been sitting for 20 + yrs. The car still had an oil filter from the early 70's, as well as vintage spark plugs, and 34K miles on the odometer. The wierd thing is that the engine is an L89, with aluminum heads, but the vin doesn't match the car. So who knows what happened back then for someone to put an original production L89 block into a car that most likely had an L71. The frustrating part is I have no documentation that says this car is either or, but I am certain that it was at least an L71 due to the configuration of the car, and the emissions label on the firewall that was only installed on an L88 or 435hp car.
Personally, I would like to just sell the block or give it to a museum or something because it really has no value to me since the vin doesn't match.
 
Logdigital said:
To make a long story short, the car was found in a warehouse, had been sitting for 20 + yrs. The car still had an oil filter from the early 70's, as well as vintage spark plugs, and 34K miles on the odometer. The wierd thing is that the engine is an L89, with aluminum heads, but the vin doesn't match the car. So who knows what happened back then for someone to put an original production L89 block into a car that most likely had an L71. The frustrating part is I have no documentation that says this car is either or, but I am certain that it was at least an L71 due to the configuration of the car, and the emissions label on the firewall that was only installed on an L88 or 435hp car.
Personally, I would like to just sell the block or give it to a museum or something because it really has no value to me since the vin doesn't match.

You have an L89 w/aluminum heads!

Drool, drool!

The odo is broken more often in a '69 than it actually works so who knows what the mileage is...Who cares! You got a L89!

You better do some serious research on that car before you touch that engine. Even a dealer installed L89 can ad some serious collector value to the car...That's something motion might have done (did do? Got in trouble for doing...), put on a BS emissions tag and tell a few lies to put a monster on the street. There were a good number of crazies in the late '60s doing some pretty sneaky stuff to get illegal cars on the road. It may be interesting to find out who all the owners were, normal people didn't just put an L89 in an L88 car for no reason.
 

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