Wrong again.  The step you talk about is the grease that is protecting it. 
 
Small font numbers were common on capris.....hint....have a look at the LH strut top.
 
The 1 has a unique curve at the top.  Tooling costs would make unlikely that anyone in the UK would reproduce that 48 years later.
 
Time for you to take your own advice and man up and admit that you got it horribly wrong.
 
 

GTV6
gtcapri
 
Can you two take this petty crap elsewhere. You are both ruining the forum for everyone.
 
Either that or one of you stand up and be a bigger person and chose to stop responding so this thread can end!
 
 

Ohhh so its ok to have different Fonts & sizes for the 4's BUT the 1 is unique huh...5 mins on google and I found correct fonts & size even the 7 has the correct curve ...so you see anyone can get hold of them , I'm sure there are plenty of öld Skool"engineering shops in any State that would also have them in the tool boxes, you guys are telling me there is no set standard  so why put the emphasis on the "unique "curve of the number 1  ?...try again mate 
 

Mate its far from petty, he has publically accused me of rebirthing a car so I think it's fair for me to publically defend it.  Unlike him my real name is on this forum.
 
If it bores you don't read it.

Hey we are all learning from this , isn't that what forums are for? :) 
Hey...GTV6  you named the post "Shadows"  not me , nahhhh I never stated you rebirthed it ...but someone in its past  life did , and now your stuck with her , but dont be too hard on yourself ..shes still a Capri and a nice one at that , and thats all that matters in the long run...just dont go Putting adds on the net emphasizing "MATCHING NUMBERS ", because from the feedback I,m getting on this forum there are too many discrepancies with the ID stamping on our beloved Capris so Matching numbers anyone can alter & modify  and you cant go wrong ....any stamp and font any size any style  will do  as there are  no SET STANDARDS  according to the gurus on this forum ( thanks to those slacker FORD workers from the late 60;s to early 70's )  , so basically I have learnt a few things I didnt know before from all this forum tennis match one being .... that Matching Numbers as far as our Capris go doesnt mean diddly Squat !!!

I'm not trying to take sides or anything, but I got curious about stampings (font sizes, etc.) and looked through my records to check what was done. It seems as if different font sizes for some letters/numbers were quite common (almost the norm) up to the 2nd half of 1970.
 
Amazingly, one of the photos I found was the next number along from GTV6's car. It's from a car I was looking at buying (and should have bought) back in 2006. You can see from each photo that the font size inconsistency is the same between the two.
 
 
 

 

Thanks for taking the time to upload that cosworthfreak.  It will be a great addition to the cars paperwork. 

Thanks Jamie, I think it was sorted by 9/70 as one of my wrecks shows. Maybe earlier. Definitely the 4 was different and a few other numbers (need to check). Number 1 was definitely larger. I do notice that stamp changed from 71 to 72. Position and font. Font different to 71 and 72 model as well.

This is from a dec 69  4 cyl shell, all small with the 1 slightly larger, but not full size.