My cousin Bob gave me a ring on Saturday, and offered to help pull the engine and box out. I was glad of a hand, and we set about the car just after 1 pm. After a quick run of the engine without the exhausts on (Well, you gotta have a go havent you?) we took the wings and front off. Every bolt and screw just undid, which is amazing after working on rusty Brit cars. By about 6 we had everything ready to pull the engine and box, and half hour later it was on the floor. And thats when it got confusing. The “TH 350″ that I got for the Dooster, which was hopefully gonna go in with the 350 turned out to be 3” longer than the glide. Doh! Chop the prop? Get a new tail bit for the box?

Plan “A” was to get a new tail, so I looked for any numbers stamped on the box. Not a one to be seen. Hmm. OK, Get my TH350 book I bought off ebay and compare. Looks a bit like but not quite. That’s the passenger side of the car at the bottom, and a fridge from the old house at the top. I need to tidy up.

So onto the net. I looked at every GM box I could find, and it doesn’t look like any of em. It’s got a pan shaped like a TH350, but it hasnt got all the same bits sticking out. It was out of a late 70’s/Early 80’s Monte Carlo, which had TH200’s or 350’s in apparently. I just need someone to say “Yes mate, it’s a 350” or whatever so I can revisit plan “A”.

According to the info I found, a TH200 has stuff stamped into the pan. Nothing to be seen. So is it a TH350 or is it a TH200 that’s got the pan off one? I dunno. Someone will. It’s blue, so doesnt go with the green block! Time to get polishing I think If it goes in the car.

Now the motor’s out, I could find the serial and casting number. Engine serial is T0218D which I reckon makes it a 1957 283 cast
on the 18th of February in Tonawanda 283ci 185hp unit. The other numbers seem to tie up too (3746826 on the Inlet manifold).