[Tigers] Tigers Digest, Vol 5, Issue 31

[Tom Parker]

Mine's a '67 Mark 2 with the 6 bolt block and "289" in the valley. The
casting code (block, drivers side front): 6D27 L (I think it's an "L"). The
car s/n is 105, which makes it the 6th production Mark 2.

Tom

'67 Mark 2 being reborn.

On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Mike Baskette
<mikebaskette at sbcglobal.net>wrote:

> I'm am no expert on the block issue, come to think of it, I'm no expert.
>  If
> you check MustangTek you will see that the 289 block was started in 1963
> (C3OE-6015-B),  4.0 bore.  I have one stashed in the garage..  The
> machinist
> believes it has never been bored.  These of course are three freeze plug
> blocks
>
> There is a gray area when it comes to date specific castings.  I know some
> savy Ford guys and they only hazard a guess concerning the blocks.  Also
> Ford
> didn't start casting the numbers 289 in the valley of the engine
> until??????????? '65,'66?
>
> Were there some 289's thrown into the mix when shipped to the U.K.......who
> knows.  All the parts bolt up to one another.......right?
>
> Mike
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