Re: THE GREAT FORD TOPLOADER TRANS DELIMMA

[ARDUNDOUG@aol.com]

Doug,
    Maybe I'm missing something but I've always heard that the 49-53 Ford 
"stick" transmission bell housing would bolt to some of the later Ford manual 
transmissions.
    I did a SBC Lakewood "can" over to bolt up to a 49-53 8-BA Flatty block. 
I don't know about the input shaft length though.
    I  96 we ran a SBC in the Gold Digger Lakester and used the Flat-O-Matic 
C-4 to Flatty block adapter. It took a little "fiddling" but 
worked.......Ardun Doug in CA.