[twobjshelbys]

I just helped a friend buy something from a "Junk Yard" (It's actually LKQ, which is anything but a junk yard - you should see their facility). If it's a place like this they are extremely well organized and if they say an engine came out of a certain VIN, I would take their word for it. They have no horse in a race short of it being solid gold.

Whether or not that engine was original to the vehicle it was removed from can only be verified by a physical examination of the engine. Since the vehicle is long gone you'll depend on Ford's system to give you vehicle details as to what the original engine was.)

For verification purposes the DMV is likely to accept the junk yard's VIN number as the source.