I spoke with the gentleman that owned this car from approximately 1987 to 2001. I hadn’t talked to him in probably 10 years and those conversations consisted of me asking about documentation and the original transmission to see if he might have anything laying around.
I asked him details as to how he got the car and he stated that he bought the car out of the classifieds for $1500. At that time he stated the motor and transmission were out of the car but that both had been rebuilt. He put the car in the barn and then a container inside his shop where it sat until about 2001 when he sold it.
I bought the car from the next owner who stated the motor had been rebuilt. Thinking back he didn’t say when and I didn’t ask, I just assumed it was recent. While restoring the car I decided to disassemble the motor. I remember being glad I did as there was some slight corrosion in the cylinders and on the crankshaft and it didn’t look “fresh” like you would expect a rebuilt motor to look. I had it bored to clean the cylinders, new pistons, rings, pushrods, bearings, rockers, etc. I’m going to get in touch with the gentleman that I bought the car directly from and ask him to see if he did anything to the motor but putting this all together leads me to believe he didn’t. If he didn’t, this would mean the engine hadn’t been touched since the mid eighties prior to me getting the car.
I’m also going to look back at pictures and see how fresh the engine paint looked. I don’t know if I have any of the block without the heads on or not.
