if the front engine mounts are "pegs" on brackets riveted on the front cross member it's likely an original V8 and the vin number will start with a V .... optional V8 engines in 59 were the 283, 322, and 348

Bill


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"When we tug a single thing in nature we find it attached to the rest of the world" John Muir
"When we tug a single thing on an old truck, we find it falls off" me
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