1973 Pontiac Other Other

73SC wrote:

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Trivia time....It's a 400, Orange block or Blue Block ? Remember it's a Parisienne.

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 It will be an orange  SBC, if original. I had a 73 Parisienne I bought in 75 with a 350 Chev under the massive hood, and few years later bought a 74 Safari wagon with a 400. I bought the wagon because I thought the engine was a Pontiac 400, paid for without even looking at it because a friend owned it and told me it ran mint. I wanted a spare engine to build for my Trans Am.

 Surprised the heck out of me a few days later when I finally opened up the hood And there was a tiny Orange lump instead of a big Blue one!

I'm thinking could well be a blue Pontiac 400. By 1971 both Pontiac & Chevy engines were in these cars, and there is space on both sides of the engine compartment to mount the battery.

The correct answer is in '73 it was in Fact a Blue Block 400 Pontiac in the cars

Earl is right too because Station wagons got the 400 orange Chevy small block. 

Just another one of those Canadian Pontiac engine roulette games.