Topic: Distributor Critique

[AJ]

Do these marks / stamping look legit ?  And any other comments about authenticity ?
TIA

[jwc66k]

Outside of being well worn and almost unreadable, what is the Ford number stamped on the housing? All I can make out is "D0**-12127-G" on the first two apparently identical pictures.
Jim

[aaatp]

Looks like D0ZF-12127-G.

[Countrysquire]

Adrian, I see my share of distributor housings and the stamping on that one looks very typical to me. Not unusual to see them double stamped.

[AJ]

Oops i did originally post duplicate photos.  So i corrected that by posting another photo of the casting numbers that more clearly shows the D0ZF.   I saw a similar dizzy that had a different font for the numeric ?1? thats in the date code.  So was looking for opinions by folks with keen eye on this sort of thing

[J_Speegle]

Oops i did originally post duplicate photos.  So i corrected that by posting another photo of the casting numbers that more clearly shows the D0ZF.   I saw a similar dizzy that had a different font for the numeric ?1? thats in the date code.  So was looking for opinions by folks with keen eye on this sort of thing

Quickly looked through some of the picture I have of date stamps on distributors from 67-70 and I do have pictures of what appears to be original stampings and I found both "1"s with the upper "arm" (for lack of a better term" and those with the upper arm and a cross line forming a base. Look like the supplier had different font stamps at different stations or different suppliers had slightly different font sets as far as I can tell from a quick look at the subject and that specific letter font

[Bob Gaines]

Typically if the distributor is re stamped the surface in that area is milled down to take away the numbers prior to re stamping. When that ID stamped surface area is compared to the surrounding material you can typically tell a slight variation of height between the two. Sometimes it is not much. If you can't tell most likely you are in the clear.