AAR engine help
 

During the late 70s a friend of mine used to drive what we all understand to be an AAR. It was painted baby blue without the strobe stripes but had the spoiler & special hood. It had all the blackouts. Engine had a 4 barrel instead of 6 pack with column shifted automatic. We knew nothing about these cars then as most of us were messing with Chevies.

Fast forward to today & he sold the car years ago but I just found out he kept the engine, power steering & sway bars. He didn't keep anything with the VIN. I'm sure there is a least a partial VIN on the engine. Could that number lead to a full VIN? Is there anything that would say this was a AAR engine? Thank you, Joe

Partial VIN on side of engine block. https://www.e-bodies.org/buying-your...bers-page-3-2/

Theres a guy on the moparts site that keeps a registry of trans am cars. I cant think of his name but the guys there know him and hes was a regular.
I do think they were special engines

The guy is Barry Washington and goes by alaskan_ta on there

It will have "357710.T.A.340.#" into the side of the block

I’ll say it again, this site is special.

The big 'TA' letters cast into the side of the block within the casting number will be your giveaway

VIN BEGINS:

JH23J0 for TA Challenger

BS23J0 for AAR Cuda

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Don't the stampings include the last 8 digits only?:hmmm:
Cool if car could be found but great for a real AAR or TA w/ Engine MIA.
:beers:
~ Pete

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Yup, just like Camaros it includes only the model year '0' for 1970 then letter 'B' for Hamtramck, MI assembly plant, then the last numerical six digits of the VIN.

MOPAR did not have division indicators for Chrysler, Dodge, Plymouth like GM (1-Chevrolet, 2-Pontiac etc. ) on their engine/trans partial VIN stampings.