that's nothing. In about '73, I bought a junkyard core a727a trans for a 340 swap into my 67 cuda. It had been seriously fried. The "fluid" was dark brown syrup. The smell was horrible, I can almost still smell it. I had to wash everything in lacquer thinner, and it still took a lot of elbow grease to clean all those internal parts. I'll never forget that. Incidentally, I still have that trans, it's in another '67 cuda.
