Opinions welcomed

[Moparman66]

My coronet 500 currently has a rebuilt 360 in it now and have the original 273 block (supposedly rebuilt) sitting on a stand. Should I keep it in case the new owner would ever want to go back to a number matching car? Granted it's just a 2 bbl 273, not a hemi! I don't forsee someone doing that but I could be wrong. Watcha guys think about it? I had about a 2" thick folder of all the work he had done to the car, receipts for everything, valve/ heads, cam, all the specs, everything right down to the gas tank cap he purchased, but my at that time fiancé, thru all of it away!:angryfire: So I did the same to her! So I don't know what he did to the 273

 

[khryslerkid]

I'd hang on to it. Once the engine is gone, it's gone. I'm hanging on to my original engine, replacing it with a 440 to tear around in...

Nice looking car!

 

[Car Nut]

Keep it!

Nice looking Coronet!

 

[Moparman66]

Thanks for the compliments guys! I want to pull the 360 one day and build it up to 375 to 400 hp. I thought about dropping a 440 in it but the old cores are getting expensive! The 360 in it now prob has only 15,000 on it, it runs so nice I hate to tear it apart. But it just doesn't have the power that I want, but I just cruise it anyways so it's not a big deal

 

[super-bee_ski]

Great car!
Great story...
Great engines...273 AND the 360..
Great plans..
Keep the original 273....keep driving the 360....
And congratulations on dumping the "Dead Weight"

 

[Coyoteduster]

It isn't costing you anything to hang on to the 273, and it just may make you some extra coin if/when you decide to sell.

Good looking car!

 

[jj426savoy]

Keep it........:hello2:

 

[monaco66coupe]

Keep it, or I sell to me, as I would love to have it.(Kidding) After many years, I'm tired of race cars. I'm 62 and I have a beautiful 66' Coronet sedan that the 273 would work in, and the 440 six pack would be removed. The 440 is bad, rumbly, and I'm tired of it. My wife won't ride in it, and it gets 8 miles to the gallon. Cute at the Bar, but,,,,, Otherwise stay wise and keep it. You may be me some day. Then what?

 

[Moparman66]

Keep it, or I sell to me, as I would love to have it.(Kidding) After many years, I'm tired of race cars. I'm 62 and I have a beautiful 66' Coronet sedan that the 273 would work in, and the 440 six pack would be removed. The 440 is bad, rumbly, and I'm tired of it. My wife won't ride in it, and it gets 8 miles to the gallon. Cute at the Bar, but,,,,, Otherwise stay wise and keep it. You may be me some day. Then what?

i am not too far behind you, I'll be 54 soon! Lol. The small block is better on gas than a 440, I know that cause my '69 300 has the 440 and gets only 12 mpg on the highway. But it is actually a bit faster than the coronet and its 100% stock, my car buddies would laugh about it being so damn big, thinking it was slow until we all ran against one another and I showed them what a chrysler looked like from the rear end! Ha
So I guess I'm all set for my " old man days" with the Chrysler, reminds me what Muhammed Ali used to say " floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee"
Ya wanna trade even up for the 440 6pk, for my 273? Lol
Got any pics of your coronet?

 

[Roger63]

I say keep it also, but really in an old mopar who relly gives a damn about gas mileage?

 

[HYRDGOON]

Provided everything else int he car is original I'd keep the 273 as well. I crossed this bridge when I bought my crate motor about keeping my 383 but my car was so gone from original (converted from 727 to A833 etc...) that the original motor meant nothing in the whole package I offered.

As long as everything else is pretty close to original I think it adds value should you choose to sell the car one day. The next owner would probably like the idea of having that motor also even IF their intent wasn't to swap it in (for the same reason you do)

 

[Seax440Dodge]

I'd hang onto it.. there's only 1 original engine to your car.. if I knew where the original 361 was to my car I'd love to have it in my garage, even though I'd have no intention of putting it in

 

[idrivemopar]

I say keep it.

The original numbers matching 340 for my car was tired when I bought it in '83 and after a few years of driving it was really tired, so I pulled it in '85, and I put in a 318 so I could make it through college, and after 26 years of the 340 sitting in dads garage I was happy I kept it and finally rebuilt it and put her back in during my restoration. So you never know!!!!