| In '62, if my memory hasn't completely failed me.   Karl
 
 Dave Casey <dcasey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Indeed it is. What year did they go to aluminum?
 Dave Casey
 
 ----- Original Message -----
 From: "Paul Holmgren"
 To: "Dave Casey"
 Cc:
 Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 5:56 PM
 Subject: Re: [FWDLK] 1961 newport w/392 Hemi?
 
 
 > Dave Casey wrote:
 >
 >> I don't know about the 61 transmission, but there's a good possibility
 >> there. You would probably need the seperator plate from the 392 and
 >> the transmission from a Poly powered car (bolt pattern on a big block
 >> is different). Does anyone know when they went from the extended cr!
 ank
 >> flange to the current style? That would be your other big hickup.
 >> You could always acquire a 727 that came behind a 392 (I can probably
 >> help you out there, as my brother has one still in the original
 >> packaging, a '57 Imperial parts car).
 >>
 >> I know that adapters are readily available to connect a 392 to a small
 >> block 727 from 62-up, which would include the A518 overdrive version.
 >> Among the places that would carry them are PAW and Bob Mazzolini.
 >>
 >> Dave Casey
 >
 >
 > Psst!!! that very well might be a torqueflight in that 57, BUT if it
 > is the original 1957 version it is known as the cast iron TF
 > NOT the aluminum casing 727!!!
 >
 >
 > --
 > Paul Holmgren
 > 2 57 300-C's in Indy
 > Hoosier Corps L#6
 >
 >
 
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