Re: [Chrysler300] Engine ID and year

My friends '60 Dodge D500 Matador had engine block also marked HP. Was a 383 with RAM INDUCTION system. It had been used originally as our local sheriff's unmarked police car. I drove it quite a bit in 1963, rode in it a lot more. Fun ride!!!

I suspect that all 300F engines also had the HP designation, but that's only a guess.

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From: <jerrylindsay300h@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: LabLoverDC@xxxxxxx, chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Don Verity <d.verity@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Chrysler300] Engine ID and year
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 1:50:05 +0000

My "H" has an HP stamped on it as well as the R41

Jerry Lindsay
---- Don Verity <d.verity@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> In 1960 the engine did not have a special # for the 300. The pad next to the distributor will have P 41 plus a build date. The P is for 1960, and the 41 is for 413. All the 60 413â€™s were stamped this way. The engine should have been built before the car was, within a few months I think.
> Don
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> From: LabLoverDC@xxxxxxx
> Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2014 11:34 AM
> To: chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Chrysler300] Engine ID and year
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> Hello Folks--I am trying to determine if the engine in my 300 F (convertible) is original. Does anyone know how to tell that? It is currently out of the car, which is undergoing a complete restoration. It is a long ram motor, but beyond that I'm not sure what it is.
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> I'm assuming there are numbers on the engine somewhere, but I haven't been able to find them, so I would really appreciate knowing exactly where to look, and how to interpret them once I do find them.
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> If the engine turns out to be not original, is there a way to determine what year/car it would likely have been out of?
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> I tried searching the list server because I'm sure this has been answered before, but I couldn't seem to find anything specific enough to help. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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> Shannon
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> 300 F convertible