Engine Decision, made

I went to a nearby car show with low expectations and came away surprised.  Several people selling old parts at the swap meet had parts for my truck.  There was even a complete cab, more on that later.

My main goal was to check for front fenders.  No luck there, but I saw someone with a couple inline sixes on a trailer and asked about one of them.  It was the Chevy 261 I had been trying to find!  This engine is the 'biggest engine easy' swap you can make for my truck.  I didn't want to go to a V8 for several reasons and was hoping to find a year appropriate 216 or any 261 engine.  I thought I had found one not too far away, but it fell through after the seller realized he needed to do a lot to replace his engine, so off I went looking again.

261 engine, with some orange (shall change this)