Identifying a 318/383/440 ????

[Prince Valiant]

Oh, and you asked about gas mileage in your email....that's a tougher one to answer.

Pretty much any of the old, high geared cars were capable of decent mileage, it just demanded that they were well tuned and with a generally good carb on there. Also, particularly with a carb, your driving style is very important...numerous, even small adjustments to the throttle as you drive will pump excess fuel down the carb...

But driven smartly, and not too quickly...say around 70 mph with sub 3.0 gears or 65 with 3.23's, you should pull anywhere from 17 to perhaps as high as 20mpg. Most likely you'll end up around 18mpg though....

If/when you get this thing, I can help you determine what you've got and help you get a good decent tune for good mileage/power.

[Moparjim]

Also, the letter is the year starting in 1965...

So, A=1965, B=1966, C=1967, etc. so you can tell just how late of a smogger 1970s van it came out of...