A friend and I spent the day today 'junking'.. hit some old country junkyards, spent a few hours 'searching' for some cars we had received a 'tip' on.. but unfortunately couldn't find these very special cars.. then we went thru Arab AL and visited a classic car dealer there, that was unfortunately closed, but we could see many nice cars (very highly priced) thru the plate glass windows, then we wandered thru a couple of hundred 'classics' packed into the yards around the dealership.. After that I called the owner of the 32 Buick with the DZ302 and the '40 Ford and asked to pay him a visit.. which we did.
The 32 Buick with the DZ302 motor (driving a Turbo400 trans), and the '65 Corvette IRS was priced at $18,500. The body on the Buick is VERY solid everywhere with some metal damage on the LR fender area. The 40 Ford wasn't as good body wise, as there were an area or two that had suffered bad repair. It had the original '40 suspensions, trans, and rear, but had an engine transplant from a '56 Chevy (265 2 bbl).
THE 302 engine in the Buick, appeared to be a *real DZ 302* from a '69 Z28, Assembly date (V0125DZ) - VIN stamp on the block side above the oil filter (I took a pix but the light was very poor so most photos didn't turn out good). Heads (I only removed one valve cover - which had drippers) was a '186' head dated A 3 9, which seems appropriate for the 25Jan engine assembly date. The intake was the Winters 2472. Carb was a '4346 from a big block - with front vented bowl. The exhaust manifolds are (2.5" ramshorns) from '64-'65 Corvette. I 'think' the Distributor is likely an original one from the 302, although I could not check the numbers. The Alternator had a '69 upper bracket, but the Alt itself was an '834'. Under the valvecovers looked clean, oiled, and good considering 30+ yrs stored away. They said the engine spun with the starter (a '1968 date -if late '68 might be factory orig for the engine?).
They said they didn't want to separate the engine from the car at this point, although if someone wanted the Buick body/chassis, they probably should sell it and separate the engine parts for separate sale (that was my advice to them).
