blumun53
02-10-2007, 02:29 AM
Summer, 1971. A school buddy of mine, James, was working on his newly acquired car one afternoon as I dropped by to chat. It was a 61 SS, now get this, two-door sedan! He was pulling the 409 out of it. I asked what was wrong with the motor. "Nothing," he said. Then I asked the obvious question of why he was taking it out. He replied that he was going to install it in the other car he bought, which was sitting out back. I looked, and it was a 62 Biscayne 2 door sedan.
"Are you nuts?" I asked. He told me this long story about the owner of the SS dying, and the car got pushed away in the shuffle of family and other necessary goings on. And in the meantime, the title was no place to be found, so he decided to put the engine and 4 speed in his Biscayne. The Biscayne was originally an automatic, so obviously, he had to fabricate a bell crank bracket, etc, etc. James drove that 409 Biscayne as long as I continued to live in Westville. Every once in a while, I'd pass by that SS and just sigh. What else could I do? It finally disappeared, and I could not make myself ask James what went with it, being afraid of what the answer might be. :cry
"Are you nuts?" I asked. He told me this long story about the owner of the SS dying, and the car got pushed away in the shuffle of family and other necessary goings on. And in the meantime, the title was no place to be found, so he decided to put the engine and 4 speed in his Biscayne. The Biscayne was originally an automatic, so obviously, he had to fabricate a bell crank bracket, etc, etc. James drove that 409 Biscayne as long as I continued to live in Westville. Every once in a while, I'd pass by that SS and just sigh. What else could I do? It finally disappeared, and I could not make myself ask James what went with it, being afraid of what the answer might be. :cry