Vintage automobile factories

The Big Block was originally a truck engine

 

A 1987 prototype Cadillac brougham

 

Oh. My. God. For a 2-door, that is a heinous color. I bet no one smashed into, or pulled out in front of, this car.

 

Some Pontiac V8 engine line pic's




73 Super Duty 455's final inspection

The last Pontiac V8 off the line, 1981 301 4bbl

 

Some Chevy Engine Pictures, SBC's at the Flint Engine South Plant

 

Color picture from the Chevy Tonawanda Engine plant, I never see those rams horn manifolds painted Chevy orange on restored cars.

 

1946 shot of the painted Body delivery system at the Flint MI Buick City Plant, the bodies were delivered by trucks 8 at a time and automaticly unloaded.

 

I've never noticed these longer manifolds before. Were they perhaps 4-2-1 high-output types?

 

Those are 1963 421 SD Manifolds, Very Very rare parts. Even Rarer if they are the Aluminum version used only on the 1/4 Mile Factory back race cars.

 

Judging by the color and casting texture, they look aluminum, from here, comparing that one with the normal darker cast iron one on the engine below. The automatic transmission even differs from those of neighboring engines, there. For the quarter mile, dragsters were using two-speed automatics of some sort, back then

 

In 1963 the Manual transmission cars were still faster than the Automatic's of the day, that would change in about 5 years time. But they did build both Manual & Automatic SD's for the different classed of cars back then. (The Automatic's raced in a Separate and slower class) Its hard to tell from the low quality picture, but I agree that the exhaust manifolds look to be Aluminum, but I think the Automatic Transmission is the 4-speed (no OD) Hydromatic that is attached to that engine.

This is the best Picture I can find on the web, it seems to have the long tailshaft housing, and the large oil pan of the transmission in the picture


Here is a shot of the cast iron version of those manifolds on a 62 389 SD, the collectors on the end of the manifolds are worth more than the manifolds themselves, as very few sets of collectors seem to have survived