Can anyone provide an image of a 1965-66 concours-correct starter for a 289?
In a similar situation, no original image or picture was available for my application. I had to research multiple threads to determine the best information available at this time for my particular example.
If you go back to the image provided in the very beginning of this thread, you will see a picture of a straight-6 cylinder starter. Obviously, that is not the correct engineering number for your needs. It does however give you an idea what an original starter would look like for your application. Do some research. Decide on an approximate date that your car would have on it. My understanding is that yours would have the FoMoCo script similar to what is seen in that image. Next, determine what your engineering number ought to be. The MPC should help you determine that. Finally, make up a mock-stamp and bounce It off members of the community.
I seem to recall there is a thread about somebody making up a starter stamp.
The starter you wish to begin with would have no "engineering numbers" "stamped INTO" the main starter body. Later 67-up uses numbers stamped INTO the starter body INSTEAD of ink-stampings.
Your largest concern would be to locate a nose cone for your application. That item will have a visible engineering number cast into it. The rest of the starter is the same regardless whether it is from a 6-cylinder, 289, 352, 390 and so on. The rest of the starter motor (not the nose cone) doesn't matter if from an automatic or manual transmission either. That is to say that only the nose cone is the only part of the starter that is application-specific. (Well that and the ink-stamped engineering number).
