[William]

This is really old info but here goes:

#26 was owned & lightly raced in Indiana by I believe a guy name of Jim Pierce. It was for sale in Hot Rod mag in the '80s; Ed C ended up with it. He flipped it to someone in MI. Never cut, pretty nice car.

Here is where it gets strange.

The new owner bought it because he had the complete OE engine from #3. In the early '90s the owner of #3 at that time found the block from #26 and restored it; Chevy HP magazine did an article on the dyno report; we provided a few parts for it and got a credit.

Hot Rod did a feature on #3 in the early '80s and sort of insinuated the engine was original. The owner of the #3 engine was miffed and wrote them a letter which they published.

One would think these two could have reached some sort of trade that would return each engine to its original home. To the best of my knowledge this never happened.

Go figure.