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Amt 1960 Ford ranchero,(amt822/12)    what is with the Chevy motor in this kit..  What a let down, would never bought the thing if I knew that,,     170. 200. 260. 289..thats what was in them.  Not a Chevy big block?     Or am I wrong?

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The kit was originally the '61 Ranchero, a curbside.  At some point in the distant past, it was modified to have an open hood and for inexplicable reasons, a BBC.  All subsequent issues as the '61 then the recent '60 have had that engine.  

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The engine originated with the '66 Impala.  AMT probably didn't want to tool an engine for the kit, so they went through existing tools and found one that fit.  Other Modified Stocker kits probably would have been looked at back then, most likely the Ford kits first.  The axle holes in the Ford engines would put them too far forward to fit the Ranchero.  So they used a Chevy, which in 1:1 doesn't come close to fitting.  My older brother put a 302 into a '62 sedan delivery around that time, and it wasn't a bolt-together deal.  Ford made a lot of changes to put a V8 into the '63 Falcons.

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