L78 CE Crawlspace find
 

Found last weekend and have it at home. CE 396 L78. Shortblock, appears to have never been run. It is supremely coated in grease. It was in a crawl space under a house wrapped in plastic. Dated 72. 4 bolt, 3/8 dimple rods, forged pistons, 6223 crank. No sign of any heads ever installed, pistons are as new, no black on top, cross hatching in cylinders is very bold. Built in a 290 block. Odd. All the paint dabs are on the rod nuts across the caps etc. Nice find. I almost broke my back moving this out of the crawlspace.

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Would you like to sell it to pay for the chiropractor bill to ease your back pain

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Did you ever find a hemi in a river?

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We have free medical here in Canada. Well not free, I guess its in the huge taxes we pay. LOL

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YDR - I assume that you found a Hemi in a river? That's a good one. Better than a crawlspace. I should have taken a photo. I did buy a 69 SS Nova parts car from a guy that had murdered his girlfriend and burned a barn down with two horses in it the day before though. That is true. The barn was still smoldering while we removed parts from the Nova a hundred yards away. And, maybe just maybe, that Hemi was attached to a sailboat? Huh?

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Nah! Just like to hear of the crazy places folks find stuff - sometimes you find Yenko's in fields, like mine. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif[/img]

https://www.yenko.net/features/2001/field.jpg

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Wow, just like that. It even still had the decals on it. We have lots of fields here, they just do not grow Yenkos.

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There was a 69 Nova here I found years ago. It was rumored that it had a 427 in it. I bought it, no power train and then sent the VIN to GM Canada for docs. It came back un traceable. Who knows. I did save the cowl etc for years and finally sent it to the junk. Now I see there is VINs from USA to check for COPOS etc. Oh well.

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The Yenko Stinger Canadian Prototype I had at MCACN last year was found in a storage yard in Canada. Didn't know what I had until I found documents signed by Don Yenko from June 1966 relating to the car and then retired GM Canada employees steered me to the car's racing history.

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Did you ever find a hemi in a river? </div></div>

I thought it was a ZL1 block in a tow truck that was in a river? Or am I combining two stories?