1969 Cyclone

[buddscreek]

yea.. it was in a buddys shop that burned down. destroyed that side oiler.
i liked the fe's, they were fun when the parts were around. if i was to do again i would build a 460. now i play with windsors on the dirt track with my son.

 

[Gilligan]

yea.. it was in a buddys shop that burned down. destroyed that side oiler.
i liked the fe's, they were fun when the parts were around. if i was to do again i would build a 460. now i play with windsors on the dirt track with my son.

Sounds a lot like the fire down 7D way in Johnny's shop that destroyed some nice old Ford iron. Me, more than 10 years ago I bought a bunch of the engines that Nace Mattingly had stored/stashed away in a run-down tobacco barn on his farm. Picked up a lot of nice FEs out of that deal..including the 428 thats now all rebuilt and ready to go.

 

[buddscreek]

i remember nace's barn. the crank in the 427 that burned i got from jonny
when mine cracked. you got something to put the 428 in?

 

[Gilligan]

i remember nace's barn. the crank in the 427 that burned i got from jonny
when mine cracked. you got something to put the 428 in?

I kinda figgered the connections were there. Its a small world.

I have an old '72 Champ 17 that was originally built with a 427 H&M and a Volvo outdrive. I was going to stick the 428 in there (it has all the correct H&M marine stuff on it, including the dual oil filter/cooler) but in front of a heavily modified Berkeley drag jet.

Project has been languishing for years...in part because all my old hot rod boat buddies from 7D are not playing with them any more (or..like Boots..are gone from this world altogether).

Sorry for the thread hijack Rarebreed..

 

[RareBreed]

The car is supposed to be delivered today!! I'm sure my husband didn't sleep much last night. Kind of like a kid the night before Christmas.

 

[Jameo]

The car is supposed to be delivered today!! I'm sure my husband didn't sleep much last night. Kind of like a kid the night before Christmas.

He bought a car that runs?

 

[RareBreed]

The car is supposed to be delivered today!! I'm sure my husband didn't sleep much last night. Kind of like a kid the night before Christmas.

 

[RareBreed]

It finally came!!!

 

[Gilligan]

Sweet. Now for the first ride...

 

[RareBreed]

Sweet. Now for the first ride...

Husband, our two boys, and family friend drove it home while I followed in our truck. We got it home and noticed one of the tires is messed up so that needs to be fixed before another test drive happens. Also seatbelts need to be installed in backseat (we found them in a coffee can in the trunk!)

 

[glhs837]

Very cool, noticed the SRT-10 pickup on the truck behind it.

 

[RareBreed]

Very cool, noticed the SRT-10 pickup on the truck behind it.

I had never seen a car hauler unloading before. It took quite the effort to just get things ready to unload that truck and then taking our car off. We feared that after two weeks on a car hauler, the battery would be dead but it started right up.