I then asked if he would be able to put the motor in the car for me as that is something I had never done. Anyways, he told me he would be happy to sell it to me even though I admitted I didn’t have all the money up front and would need to pay him bits at a time. He was probably 6′ 9” tall and a mountain of a man, but the smallest of all his brothers. This man was in his mid-seventies and went by the nickname of “Tiny”. He had planned to put it into an old Jaguar coupe back in the day but never got around to finishing the project and it had sat under the hood of the Jag ever since. He told me he JUST sold the transmission but that he had a 340 CI small block with matching 4 speed transmission that had been sitting in storage for 30+ years. I called him up and we hit it off immediately. Oddly enough, a guy just down the street was selling one. So, I looked on a local classified’s website called KSL for a A833 four speed transmission. That is when I learned I could get a four speed to match up to the slant six. I had been using it as my daily driver and it BARELY handled the freeway speed, parts would fall off, RPMS would be maxed out, no AC Etc. It wasn’t until I was about 24 years old and living in Salt Lake City Utah that I got serious about it. I paid to have the motor rebuilt, new tires, brakes, etc. Years went by and I did what I could to work on it here and there through high school.
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