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No secret. Saved your pics, downloaded to Picasa, rotated in Picasa, copied and saved the rotated pics, then dropped them here. Voila!

must been cause I use my iphone to take the pics. they were all correct on the computer but posted weird. I even rotated a few and tried and got the same results. I will stick to a camera from now on.

i use my iphone, but i don't upload from the iphone. i copy to the computer, resize and flip, and then post.

Front end gone

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Ok, Interesting question. As I have gotten into this car, I have noticed that it appears the car has been at least partially taken down prior. Missing or loose hardware etc. One of the troubling things I noticed is that the Air Conditioner and assorted hardware was missing from the engine. Of course because I want to do an Original restore, I would have been added it back on. However, no mounting brackets, no pulleys etc are left on the engine. I will be pulling the engine this week end and obviously I wanted to make sure the engine was painted back to original. In doing so, I am now even more miffed and questioning if I even have the original Patrician Engine in the car. Why do I wonder this?

My Engine block and heads are Metallic Green. Metallic Green was the color of the 56 Executive 352. I also have a Bronze intake manifold which again was green on the Executive 352 and Bronze on the 374 Patrician.

The 56 Patrician 374 should be a Bronze block and heads with Bronze Intake. Valve covers should be Silver with Red letters however, I have the optional Chrome.

What's the consensus out there, Do I have a mismatched Engine? i.e. 352 block with pat intake?

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Pulleys and compressor mounting bracket might have been scavenged for someone else's project or simply lost during major engine work.

Intakes are the same for all single 4-bbl. V8 applications. The metallic green engine paint is not a good sign that the block is authentic (let alone, original) to the car, but it's entirely possible that the engine was mis-colored during production and then painted over in the correct color.

If you wanna know for sure what engine is presently in there, look for the VN number that's stamped on the block, near the base of the oil filler tube.

Have you verified the engine is original to the car? With so many items with incorrect colors, perhaps not. The number on top of the block in that flat space at drivers side of oil filler should match the door jamb number.

I will do so this evening when I get home. I was doing a little work here in the office when I cam across this revelation lining up some engine paint. I will verify the numbers against the door this evening.
This is disturbing as the story is this is a one owner car that drove from 56-69 and then warehoused it in a heated facility for 45 years. I'm thinking it had more road time that at this point.

You might also want to check the Utica plant engine #. Passenger side, far rear, viewed from below. Just below the cylinder head.

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Even More sick feeling. the 56 patrician 374 should have a Rochester 4GC7008610 and I clearly have a Carter which was on the 352 CI