Topic: Interesting Find

[ruppstang]

 A friend sent me this picture of a plate found in a 67 Mustang glove box. It was not attached and The Marti Report gave no connection to the car.

Has any one see any thing like this?

[tobkob]

Ford used to give schools engines, transmissions, etc from damaged cars. When I was in Vocational Tech school we had  289 and a 429 engines on stands and the 429 was out of a station wagon that had been part of a train derailment. I haven't heard of a complete car being donated although anything is possible... I remember there were tags on the engines but I don't remember if they looked the same as yours...

TOB

[CharlesTurner]

+1 on shop engine/trans.  Here's a pic of one attached to a bellhousing.

[ruppstang]

Thanks, I knew some one would know more about it.

[J_Speegle]

Seen them a couple of times on engine, trans or the combination of the two donated to technical institutes, trade schools or even high schools in the 50-60's

Friend purchased a Hipo fairly recently from such a program - though it is unusual from what I've seen as most seem to not be high performance in nature typically


Years ago I purchase a bunch of stuff (Carbs, dists, fuel pumps, AC kits....) from a high school in the late 60's Some of the dist had etching on the exterior in code where the teacher had altered something in the unit for the students to discover and correct I guess. Lucky that that was only done on a couple of units. The rest just sat for decades in a closest at the school.

Couple of other labels/plates one might run across


Mercury Marine applications



Newer Industrial applications

[70cj428]

I have one on an engine stand... A friend bought a 390 from a tech school and both the engine and the stand had one of those plates …..