[Keith Seymore]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: novadude</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Mark C. said what I was thinking. Engines came to the assembly plants ready to drop in the car. Also, it's not like GM locomotive parts would have been floating around Norwood. Nothing is impossible, but it seems like a strange story.

Similarly, I am always skeptical of stories of 427s going into 396 cars. Any 427s shipped to the assembly plants would have already been allocated to certain jobs. It's not like the had extra engines laying around like bolts in a hardware bin.

Nothing is impossible, but a lot of these stories don't make sense based on the way manufacturing plants are run. </div></div>

Much easier to do in Pontiac, Michigan, since engines were designed, cast, machined and assembled adjacent to the vehicle assembly plant.

Dimitri Toth likes to tell of a friend who hand assembled his own engine, in the experimental engine room, for a '65 GTO that he had ordered.

When the big day came he watched helplessly in horror as blueprinted beauty landed in a non-descript wagon about 6 cars in front of his; he had miscounted (or read the manifest numbers wrong) and introduced the engine onto the motor line too soon.

Conversly, some grandma somewhere must have wondered why she had a station wagon that ran really well...

K