NO, not at all!

To paraphrase the General Sales Letter; is that approximately sixty-five 312 cubic inch engines with automatic transmissions and four hundred and fifty-five with standard transmissions have been used in 1956 Fairlane, Customline and Mainline models in place of the 292 cubic inch eight cylinder engine with the four barrel carburetor.

These 312 engines were placed in cars that should have had 292's installed.
In order to identify these engines which had valve covers with 292 decals Ford installed a dataplate with the code "S" in the serial number instead of "M" for 292 or "P" for a 312 engine.
marv

marvi are you saying just over 500 312s were used in 56.

If the engine is such an important aspect of this car why is there not a single photo of the engine?

~DJ~ AKA "Bleach"
1956 Ford Fairlane Town Sedan 30K original miles

I don't know where they got that info that the "S" code was dual 4's. Also there's a lot of "poetic license" in the rest of the info.

A couple of things that could possibly make it an legit "S" code car is it would have to be a late built car, 79+thousandth built is later built and "Y" in the paint code is for Sunset Coral which was one of the three spring colors available only after April 56 in passenger cars.

In some of my info I have:

GSL #366 (General Sales Letter) Ford Motor Company Service Department dated
August 6, 1956 reads:

D*2 312 Cubic inch eight cylinder engines - 1956 Fairlane, Customline, and Mainline Models

We have been advised that approximately sixty-five 312 cubic inch engines with automatic transmissions and four hundred and fifty-five with standard transmissions have been used in 1956 Fairlane, Customline and Mainline models in place of the 292 cubic inch eight cylinder engine with the four barrel carburetor.

Since these engines were equipped with the regular passenger car decals on the valve rocker arm covers it will not be possible to identify them by this means. The identification of such 1956 units with these engines in this case is made by the letter S" in the vehicle serial number and a daub of yellow heat resisting paint about two inches square on the forward portion of the engine.

Only the subject text should be underlined something is wrong on the keyboarding
marv

A couple of observations. It would be odd that the 79+ thousandth car built in that plant would be a pilot model. Also, the 312 single four barrel engine was rated 225 HP in '56. The dealer installed dual four barrel kit was rated 260 HP by the factory.

John - "The Hoosier Hurricane"

Interesting car, however the claims about it being an "S" code car may be in question. Dont know for sure, but I believe that the Dual 4 bbl setups were an approved (?) dealer installed option. Some Police cars were optioned that way. Nascar & probably USAC allowed them, at least to some extent. Documentation on this subject may be scarce & open to question..

(note; Reply keyboarding problems continue)

Paul

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One of 7 built?

http://www.mecum.com/auctions/lot_detail.cfm?LOT_ID=FL0114-175491

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