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Dec 3, 2014 | 08:45 PM

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I think the pic was from 1954. ford was moving the flatheads down to the scrap barrel to make room for the y blocks LOL Nice pic!

Dec 3, 2014 | 11:17 PM

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I think the pic was from 1954. ford was moving the flatheads down to the scrap barrel to make room for the y blocks LOL Nice pic!

More likely keeping the proven engines in reserve for when the Y-blocks' valve gear locked up??

Dec 4, 2014 | 08:15 AM

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The green engine near the front looks like it has the wider water pump pulley. (typical of the '53 truck engine) But that doesn't look like a '53 F-100 oil pan. The '53 pan has a solid bottom with just a drain plug.

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Dec 4, 2014 | 09:29 AM

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That is a cleanout plate that is standard on all of the truck flatheads of that era. All of my truck engines have it. The car oil pans didn't have that.

Dec 4, 2014 | 09:52 AM

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That is a cleanout plate that is standard on all of the truck flatheads of that era. All of my truck engines have it. The car oil pans didn't have that.

I know the earlier trucks had them, but the '53 didn't. At least the two I've owned didn't. I know the history of both trucks, and they had the original engines.

Dec 4, 2014 | 09:55 AM

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I posted it on the Ford Barn to get their ideas. Some thoughts so far are that it is the freshly painted engines on a rebuild line. But rebuilds usually don't have exhaust manifolds and starters on them. I've never seen starters and exh manifolds painted engine color, either. They really slathered the paint on these.

Dec 4, 2014 | 06:38 PM

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All engines in the picture are correct for 1952. The car engines were Tangerine colored, had a half bell housing with a sheet metal flywheel / clutch cover, and the truck engines were painted green with the clean out oil pan and full circle bell housing. The attachments on the bell housings and front of the block probably mated with the engine run in stands at the factory.

Dec 4, 2014 | 07:45 PM

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The caption on that photo in the book printed for Ford Motor Company in 1953 titled, Ford At Fifty is; "An aptly-named storage area at Atlanta is the "engine forest." The green ones are commercial truck motors and the orange ones are passenger car engines from the Rouge and Cleveland." This photo is in the chapter on the Atlanta assembly Plant.
As a side note, maybe it should be a separate thread, The book stated that only 215 sixes and Mercury engine were built at Cleveland.
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