[FC] One less Rampy

[James Davis]

Generally the blocks without any code are "universal replacement 
blocks".   There were short blocks available from GM but they usually 
have some letters stamped on the block to indicate the cam installed.  
The dealer rebuilding the engine was supposed to stamp the block with 
the correct date and application, but few did.  Universal blocks will 
fit any application from the 1960's with its strange oil pressure switch 
location to the 1965 FC's and all car applications.   I purchased my 
first one from Joe Burch of Dallas and the second one from Barry Owen of 
Lexington, NC.  They are rare but unobtainable.
Jim Davis

Mike Clark wrote:
> Hello group, I thought I'd let you know that soon there will be one less 
> Rampside in the world.
>
> I hate that it has come to this, but the poor guy is pretty much unsaveable. 
> The outside looks fairly good but the floors and frame are rusted to pretty 
> much powder.  I'm afraid to stand in the bed for fear of falling through. 
> Most of the parts I take off it will go to my white Rampside.
>
> In case there's someone keeping a database of FC information I'll describe 
> this truck a little.  It's Gumby Green, code 703A and has standard trim.  It 
> is heater delete.  I'm certain it did not have a white stripe.  The interior 
> is a brownish/greyish/silverish color, like most other Rampsides I've seen, 
> and the black/grey checkered seat.  Maybe the brownish is just dirt.  It's a 
> 61.
>
> What's funny is its serial number is less than 150 away from my white truck. 
> So unless the white truck was a late-in-the-day production they were both 
> built on the same day.  I got the white truck from a man in Illinois who got 
> it from Arizona, and the green truck came from South Carolina.  Green truck 
> VIN 1R124S124646  I plan on rebuilding the engine and trans so I can have a 
> correct truck engine to replace the car engine that's in the white truck 
> now.  The green truck's engine doesn't have a code stamped on the case 
> besides the fuel pump.  Different for trucks maybe?
>
> It struck me as I was removing parts the other day, that the last time these 
> bolts were touched was in 1961 when they were being installed.  Makes me 
> feel like a time traveler.
>
>
> Mike Clark