Location of RS # 181

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In my opinion it is a re-stamp the font on the 3 is wrong - it should have a flat top
what does the type number stamp look like? and what are the casting numbers? and most importantly where has in been unearthed from?

It looks like the engine that was in 0181 when it was for sale a number of times over the past 10 years with fanciful stories about where it had come from and obvious to me at the time that, at best, it was a re-body with re-stamped vin plates and engine and possibly a few real parts and, at worst, it was a poor fake

Here is the engine from when it was for sale in June 2012 in Portugal before it was for sale in San Francisco in 2013, Mecum at Monterey in 2014 and 2015 (when they said the engine was located in Sweden in 2015 !!) etc etc and in 2018 in Florida Also in 2015 it was claimed that a RS engine with that number was in a RS in the UK at the time - I have never seen photos of it to compare stamping however.

this photo was from 2012 - three years before it was "found for the car in Sweden"