Yep, an old Y block. A starter motor for a 272, 292 or 312 most likely will fit, anything from 1956 to 61 area.Kinda resembles an old Ford 292 Y block V8 looking at that distributor orientation
The first year was a 239 cu. in., same as the flat head V8. Mercury I believe was a 317 cu.in. I played with the old Y block alot as a kid. My first real driving car was a 1960 Galaxy with a 292 in it. Bought it for $25.00 with a bad motor and put a rebuilt short block in it. After less than 40,000 miles it started to smoke something terrible, looked like a 2 stroke coming down the road. I talked to everyone I knew and looked into it as much as I could but finally junked the car. A year or two later I was talking to an old mechanic and the subject of this car came up. He asked if it had vacuum wipers which it did so he told me to check the diaphragm in the fuel pump. Sure enough, it had a hole in it so it was sucking oil out of the crankcase and dumping it right into the intake. That engine along with a bunch of others is still sitting in my brothers shed but I think he claims they are his now.At the ford dealer where i did my apprenticeship, we worked on the old 272's and 292's in medium duty trucks, mostly in old single axle grain trucks. The earliest ones i believe were smaller than 272 but off the top of my head i can't recall. The starter also may be a prestolite
Unfortunately it seems that only old guys know what a Standard Ignition catalogue is anymore. To be honest, I'm not sure I even have any around anymore.Yep, Auto-Lite. What do you need or are the brushes just stuck? Old Standard Ignition catalogues should list that starter by the auto-lite number