This is the mighty 351M engine. Smog motor. Lots of potential if you're patient (and rich) but all I want is a clean running engine, a little power, a lot of smoothness. Timing and carburetion adjustments to come.

Everything under the hood SEEMS to be in place, except for the lack of an air filter element. The battery is a year old. Everything else appears original except the distributor and radiator caps, plug wires, belts, and oil filter.

I didn't have an opportunity to clean this label up further at this time but I will recondition it later and take a clearer pic to post on here. 351/400M family, 351cid. I have never seen a 351M in a Torino before, always Windsors, or a 400M. New to me.

This is the cert label. Has to be one of the last Torinos, July 1976. When I pull the build sheet maybe I'll find out it was built on my birthday, the 18th, just two years earlier! We'll see...but the trans code is X (FMX) and the axle code is 2 (non-locking 2.75:1, best possible for mileage and will be stellar with an AOD later).

This photo may be impossible to see because of the glare and all, but I suck at taking pictures through glass.