Originally Posted by extrashaky

I appreciate the offer and may just take you up on it. The paint is definitely not original, but it's not a terrible job. It's that tough old hard paint from before the EPA ruined it.

Tonight it occurred to me to see what was in the glove box. I discovered years of registrations and insurance cards, including the original temporary vehicle ID showing a delivery date of June 10, 1971. I have pretty much the entire history of the thing from its first owner down to me. It appears to have started out in California, then moved to Oregon, Kansas and finally Texas.

Tucked against the side of the glove box where I almost missed it was a tiny little booklet recording all the maintenance from 1971 to 1998. It's mostly oil and filter changes, plugs, points and distributor caps and battery replacements. However, one entry caught my attention: "new engine" noted at 84,461 miles in 1981. It doesn't say where that work was done, but since AMC dealers were still around then, I'm wondering if I have a regular 360 or a 360 built from one of those heavier service replacement blocks based on the 401 casting that the dealerships stocked for engine swaps. Now I have to do more research to figure out how to tell what manner of beast I actually have under the hood.

The glove box also contained a number of red spoons and some colorful napkins. Apparently someone liked the local ice cream shop. A lot.