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Good point!
Not all same transmissions are the same.
I once had a Lincoln AOD that had a flange instead of a slip yoke.
And a friend is fighting with a C4 from a mustang II. Nothing on Mustang II 302 seems to match any other ford engine.

 

Got the shaft today

 

Rearend painted, just need to make brake lines and it’s ready to install.

 

Rearend is bolted in!
And the driveshaft fits!
And amazingly the flex hose reaches the hard line so I don’t even need to extend the brake line

 

Is it just the camera angle or are those really long mufflers?

 

That's the first sign of getting older. You start looking for what mufflers are actually quiet.

 

The mufflers are extremely long, 30”.
The car had single exhaust when I got it, with the crossover in front of the engine.
When I swapped in the 292 I found a guy online selling complete exhaust kits for 50’s cars. These huge mufflers came in the kit. The kit fit with very little modification and was surprisingly affordable.
The car sounds good but quiet which is what I wanted.

If I want to violate the town noise bylaw I have this other car:

 

Very true, but way back in the ‘70s some of the fastest street racers in our area had big or multiple mufflers on their cars to disguise their capabilities. Quiet is good sometimes, even in a hot rod.