[olddog]

Some neighbors where I grew up, ran a small time junk yard operation for better than 60 years now. So I'm going to do some looking around - hopefully this week end. Mostly parked them in the woods an let trees grow up through them.

He (owner) said he had an old pick up truck with a 390 and that there was a mid 60's Mercury wagon with a 428 with no heads on it. A family member of the owner spun a bearing in a 68 mustang 428 cobra jet back about 1975 and swapped out the engine. I'm keeping an eye out for that engine too. It may still be up there.

Were 428 actually put in non performance cars?

Was the pick up truck 390 the same as cars or did they have the large snout steal cranks like the big truck engines?

I'll be taking my books, light, mirror, and calipers. Any tips on best ways to identify these engines or things to take with me? I'm sure there are quit a few 352 up there, unless they drug them out in recent years. Any quick identifying factors to rule these out, as I don't want to waste time on them?

The 351 C kind of tickles my fancy. I'm keeping an eye out for one of these as well.