Hmmm, your engine is the same color as BTD's 83 engine.
From personal experience, its like looking for chassis buck codes or finding the chassis catwalk horns; you have to look in the right place. A miss is truly a mile...you might as well be in Peru...
awakened was expection some combination of his VIN, which should have been M 271250 in his case.
First, use some solvent and a tooth brush to clear 32 years of dirt and grime from the exact spot.
Sometimes, the indentations require Magnaflux to determine, or dye penetrate, or blacklight or even X ray.
There is a date code as well as the partial VIN. Sometimes you see that, and not the partial VIN.
The date code might have 9's look like 6's. 0's look like 6's and 9's. If you can't find the first letter, or you can't find the first number, you might have a shallow indentation block.
I'm an ex Lab Technician. Any ASME approved Non Detructive Test Technician can find your actual VIN code even if its been ground off. The science of checking removed or defaced engine numbers been done for a long time...
Now, an important question. Since Canadian blocks would be more likely to be damaged by freeze thaw
or replaced with a Mexican Ford Remanufactored HO block, what color would the replacement be?
Were Canadian service replacement blocks and heads painted early Ford blue?
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