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The car is powered by a very rare S-code 312/225 HP V-8 engine distinguished by dual Holley 4-barrel carburetion topped by a special NASCAR-inspired air cleaner. Built at Ford’s pilot plant in Somerville, Massachusetts (indicated by the third digit in the VIN), it is one of only seven S-code cars built in 1956 and is believed to have been a test or pilot car.
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Here is what happened-
Some years ago, a guy posted for show or sale possibly (including photo), a 56 FORD sporting a 368 4V install. The cars Patent Plate Engine Code was S and not cataloged. So most jumped on the band wagon (including myself) that it was a Police install.
Come to find out many years later it was all a misnomer. The S Car was assembled in MA and received the 312 4V.
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In TSB 366 dated 8/6/56 there is a paragraph about the "S" code cars.
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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 312 cubic inch engines with standard transmissions have been used in 1956 Fairlane, Customline, and Mainline models in place of the 292 cubic inch engine with the four barrel carburetor.
Since these engines were shipped with the regular passenger car decals on the rocker 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.
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http://forums.y-blocksforever.com/Topic46286.aspx
So the real story is people putting big bucks into a car restoring it and claiming it is (or was) something special when it really isn't.