Earlier this spring I picked up this 70, It came out of Georgia and was packed with clay underneath....The frame rails were chucked full of pebble's and clay!! Anyone driving by yesterday watching me power wash this car with it trying to snow probably thought I was crazy. (just so everyone's knows, I had the fork lift braced with big 4in pipe jack supports so nothing would come crashing down on top of me)

It cleaned up incredibly well! I can see alot of raw metal and some still painted light green.

It needs a motor so I went through my stash and with the car having a build date of January 1970 on the door tag I have a January cast 440 that came out of a C-body that I could use...otherwise I have two other 440's that were cast three days apart! That shocked me as I had never compared the two. One is out of a 70 Cuda 440-6 motor with a cast date of 8-6-69 and the other is 8-9-69 so Im sure they;d be two early of motors to use in this project..... I do have a 68-69 383 motor I could use....but havent looked at them yet.
Im not sure, this is just coming about and its still in the planning stages. Just thought Id share the new project .

Couple more pic's.

Great looking project !!! . . . I would go with one of the 440's !! No replacement for displacment !!! . . .

Well, If I go with a 440 i guess it'll give me a reason to use this>

Saved it from this car.....a few of you may remember it. (One owner, 1972 GTX 440-4sp-Dana with A-12 six pack added in late 72)

This was such a cool find!!

Very nice! Here's a pic of my old Road Runner I restored many years ago... original 4 spd. Hemi car. Wish I never sold it!!
Mike

Wow! that looks sweet.

Cool!! Keep those sweet rims as well!!

Thanks. I like the slots as well.

Mine had a lot of red Oklahoma dirt all under it everywhere you can see some of it on the floor when I dropped the bent K frame that im still looking for LOL.

Nice ride. Going to be sweet no matter how you outfit it.
Looking for a matching motor and then using a 72 6 pac makes no sense to me.
I don't care about numbers. If it aint original, it aint original. Just my 2 cents. As for the 70 cast motor. Seems to late unless the cars build date is much later in the year. Didn't they start production of the cars themselves in late 69 anyway. I think the motors were cast and built before hand to be ready for assembly. I would go with one of the later 69 cast blocks.
I bet you got some weird looks doing the wash. I would never have thought the frame rails would withstand the weight but again I would have been wrong again.

No, the intake is 69, but I did find in my stash a engine that's coded 11-12-69. its a 440 that is punched .030 and I'm just going to use that one I think. I'll just re-ring it, put some new bearing in and find a pair of heads.....that should be a good motor for that car to cruise around in for now.

Looks like a VERY clean one to start with!

Is that a Y4 Gold RR????

Personally, date codes and casting dates are a romanticized element when it comes to a non-original matching #'s set-up.

My 383 based 69 RR will get any year 440 that is best suited to build as big of HP as my budget will allow at the time of build. I'd almost prefer to sell the 68-72 era 440 blocks I have now to buy stroker kits but it hasn't come down to that yet.

Post more pic's as you progress...........