Another mismatched Motor Mounts on a 73. But I think they are the original frame stands

[will e]

My 1973 convertible motor mounts do not look like the pictures of the ‘captive’ motor mounts I have reviewed on the site. Zooming into the one picture it is obvious that the mount was modified with a grinder by elongating the hole. I believe I was the culprit, I have owned this car for 40 years, pulled the engine at least three times but honestly don’t recall modifying the mounts. It must have been before I started recording in an excel spreadsheet my car activities. (I started that when I went to replace the front disc pads only to discover I had done it a year earlier). And I would have done it back when it was my daily driver and before the internet had taken off. I was probably in a hurry to get the car going again.

I have OEM mounts that I purchased from Alex here on the board a few years back. #665. Which appears to be the correct 73 convertible small block (351C) motor mounts.

The question for the experts. Does it look like I have the correct frame stands? I certainly don’t remember swapping these out and since I pretty much save everything I would have expected to find the originals in a box somewhere. I’ve looked at a lot of the pictures, they ‘look’ like the 73 convertible stands. I compare this picture to the example @Hemikiller often posts that @rackm originally put together and also one from this thread https://7173mustangs.com/threads/73-motor-mounts.43745/ which shows the hardtop frame stands for a 73 that also has earlier uppers.

Here is mine:



The hardtop version with the incorrect uppers




The awesome summary:

 

[will e]

I just zoomed in on the hard top pictures and noticed the same hole elongation exercise seems to have been committed.