390 Q on build dates..

[LSTCUP]

Talking with a builder who can put together a date coded 390, my fastback was built on June 9th 67 and I thought a correct engine date would be maybe two weeks before that, he's telling me more like 3 - 6 months??

 

[JeffTepper]

Gary:

They were putting 390's into practically everything back then. I can't imagine that Ford had a 6 month supply of engines laying around. I would venture that casting dates preceed assembly dates by a week or two at most and then depending upon how far the assembled engine needed to travel to get to the assembly line for installation, I would say that two to four weeks prior to car assembly would be likely.

By the way, your garage looks great.

Regards, Jeff

 

[Sluggo]

Talking with a builder who can put together a date coded 390, my fastback was built on June 9th 67 and I thought a correct engine date would be maybe two weeks before that, he's telling me more like 3 - 6 months??

Holy Geez.........I'm on a 1GB connection here at work and your sig was dragin me down to a crawl! :craz

I resized it and hosted it locally for you. :vic

 

[mach514]

Gary, two weeks to around three months is a good date range to be in according to the concours guys.

 

[LSTCUP]

Thanks guys! that's what I thought a couple of weeks, 3 months max is good to know.

sorry guys, gotta take the time and figure out how to resize my photos in one foul swoop, uploaded the pic's to the site a couple weeks ago and wasn't thinking, got about 80ish to resize

 

[daveSanborn]

By the way, your garage looks great.

I thought so too..... and then yesterday my wife was looking over my shoulder for a second.... saw a picture of the new man cave and said:

"It looks great except for that piece of missing door casing."


WTF? All of the "nice stuff" to look at in that new man cave and she notices a little piece of missing door casing in under 2 seconds? I booted her off the couch. Now I can't scroll through his sig pic without noticing it.

 

[LSTCUP]

ya ya, dont show your wife the urinal without the door, that's what my wife and our female friends are on about

 

[95GT]

Thanks Dave now I will notice that everytime I look at the picture. Never would have noticed it. And I bet you never pull anything over on your wife if she picks out something that small.

 

[guruatbol]

Open your pics in paint and go to the resize button in the image tab, I think. then tell it the % smaller you want it from the listed 100%.

then save it to a different name.

Make sure to use the .jpg extension.

Mel

 

[LSTCUP]

I resized them last night...