Found/for sale 2 WW2 Ford V8's in crate

[Tony Smith]

The C81A heads, 3 1/16 bore, single pulley water pumps and the blue paint all point to these being 85Hp CAR engines. The exhaust manifolds are 21A manifolds, meaning the engine was put together after 1941.

This engine is serial WC1363 and was shipped in crate 13 of 20, the other engine is serial WC1291 in crate 19 of 20. Obviously both of a similar batch built (or re-built?) at around the same time. I'd like to see more of that stencil on the bellhousing, seems to show a workshop and date reference.

The "WC" in the serials does not match a vehicle style serial, and may even refer to "Workshop Checked" or "Conditioned" if these are a rebuilt engine.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Hello Josh,

Nice buy and welcome to MLU! I merged your thread with the earlier one on the same subject.

Regards,
Hanno

[Ron Pier]

It looks to me like 505 W/S (Workshop) which is in New Delhi and Date --11??

Ron

[JoshuaCarroll]

You guys are great! Thank you for merging my thread with the other one. Attached are some more pics. The stencil looks like maybe “CLD” then something “...inhibited”. And lastly “-1- 63”. Looking at the block and inside of water jackets, this thing has to be NOS. Total diamond in the rough. The intake looks exactly like the Universal Carrier motor in this video https://youtu.be/l_Wjej1lmWw

11-inch clutch and truck bellhousing. I had a 1950 Ford F1 pickup truck for 20 yrs that got me hooked on Flatheads.

[JoshuaCarroll]

Sort forgot to mention that 81 was cast into block. Also the block has a forward arrow and “C” stamped on the back passenger side of intake. 4 core plugs in pan rail indicating 1938-40 motor. Intake surface is flat so not likely a 40-41 motor. I think a lot of these early motors went to our Allie British friends before we joined the war.

[Tony Smith]

Canadian production continued on throughout the war and featured many ID points that were discontinued earlier in US-production engines, for example the coreplugs on the lower face of the block. All Canadian engines had the forward oil-fill intake manifold, not just carrier engines.