Re: How to Identify a 1956 >>374 block?

Posted by BH On 2013/12/30 17:08:17

I can't tell much about the engine, from the auction pix, but it has a style of air cleaner (painted the wrong color, as well) that would indicate a single 4-bbl. carb. The 55-56 Carib - even the Hardtop - should have dual fours with a TRUE batwing air cleaner. Back in the 1990s, the correct intake, carbs, linkage, and plumbing would cost you a couple thou (at least).

Is what he's calling 'coral' actually orange? The upholstery looks like it has orange in it. Would help to get the paint and trim codes from the VN tag on the driver's side door hinge pillar.

I ask because there was a white/orange/black Hardtop here in PA decades ago that turned up in FL a few years back, but it didn't look like it needed a full resto.

Also, all of those Carib Hardtops were built with a WHITE vinyl roof covering, but the car from PA had an incorrectly-grained GRAY vinyl material. I don't have the VN or mileage for that car, though.