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It could also be the appearance of the two engines that confuses people as well. The heads on the 351C 351M and 400 make those engines look bigger than the 351W looks.

I worked at a parts store doing shopwork from '70 to '73. Back then Ford did some kind of cost reduction in the metallurgy of the heads that caused lots of problems. The local Ford dealer started sending us 351W heads on a regular basis that had as much as a quarter inch of play in the valve...

THIS^^^^^^^^^ The mute button on my remote is getting a real workout lately

Some nice shots you've got there. Taking pictures can be a very satisfying experience, whether it's race cars or nature. I know it has been for me.

I never was actually employed at a gas station but hung around at several starting when I was about 15 up into my mid 20s, which was '66 to '77. Learned a bit just from watching and asking questions, even pitched in with a helping hand now and then. In my mid 20s I landed a job in the...

Every once in a while when walking through a parking lot I will see something like that, I always wonder how people can be such slobs. Long ago I delivered pizzas, you get a brief window into someones life while doing that. Saw some crazy stuff, everything that's been joked about here. Saw a...

Died in his sleep. Hid health has been on a long slow downhill slide the last few years. Saw him race many times, still remember seeing him beat Prudomme to win Indy in '78.

A mentor can be a good thing, especially if he is good at what he's trying to teach you.

I was in 7th grade, the vice principle came running by, stopping at each room, saying "the president has been shot", about an hour later comes running by saying "the president is dead". All further activities cancelled for the day. My wife was a sophomore in high school at the time, said her...

Makes me think about when I was very young and something I did. We lived with my grandparents until I was maybe 5 and my parents got their first house. Down in the basement was a big pile of random pieces of pipe, all different lengths and diameters, with elbows, tees, and couplers on them. I...

I just read something yesterday that said that the Japanese car companies, which have been banking on their cars selling well, are also seeing declining sales of cars while sales of trucks and SUVs are going up.

By the late 60s the Dart did not stand out, it blended in. The '68 Charger stood out, it turned heads. It turned my head, I wanted one in the worst way. In the area where I grew up, the western suburbs of Chicago were a hotbed of hot car activity. There were lots of new or almost new cars...

You should get impressive results when the annual team budget is larger than the GDP of some 3rd world countries.

People that drive while using their cell phones are a menace to society. I've had two confirmed near misses with f'n morons on their phones. What I mean by confirmed near misses is that I was so close to the car that almost hit me that I could clearly see the phone in the other guys hand. They...

Sorry for your loss. The pain will lessen with time but not go away entirely. If I think hard about what happened with my mom back in '81 it still makes me start to well up. In the beginning of November of '81 my mom checked into the hospital for testing because she was coughing up blood, but...

Quite the rigs that both of the cars arrived at the track in. In some of the scenes where they were swapping the cam in the red Camaro It looked like it had a billet block and heads with the AJPE logo on them. Serious money for a "street racer".

Many years ago we had Sun tachs, not the round ones you put in your car but the kind that would be on a Sun distributor tester, that were mounted in a metal box that we would use in test cars.

Earlier in this thread someone mentioned the 3 stooges. I just watched the boost caboose episode, yeah the stooges they are, clowning around and having fun. On the other hand though, they cobble stuff together a little too much, apparently don't have a problem routinely fixing stuff on the...

I saw a video clip where Freiburger was showing a 68 Cuda FB that was totally burnt, a victim of the wildfires and saying they're going to revive it. Be interesting to see how that goes.

I worked for an auto parts manufacturer in their engineering lab for 36 years. One of the big customers specified that we had to deliberately backfire mufflers to test the quality of construction. So we built a machine to do the job. Had a 400 inch Ford V8 spinning a 351 at 2000 rpm. Had a...

New Balance for me too, especially since they're the only ones that offer my size 15 4E.

I enjoy going to swap meets and selling stuff, usually meet some interesting people and talk about cars, always a good time. And I like to help people out by sometimes giving them or selling them something really cheap. However, it seems like there is usually at least one jerk who will look at...

Yeah, for years the hot rodders bored a 283 out to 4 inches even and called it a 301, when Chevy had a need for an engine that size they parts bin engineered it by using a 327 block and a 283 crank and called it a 302. And they went the other way by using a 327 crank in a block with a 283 bore...

If you get some car magazines from that time period you will see that a number of people ran cars like that. And you will also see that they're all built a little differently from each other, I don't think there were any factory built cars in '66. I picked up several copies of a magazine called...

It's been said that racing rulebooks are written in blood. Something bad happens, changes are made, although sometimes it takes a little while to happen. More cockpit padding and safety gear improvements were made after Eric Medlen died, this and changes in car construction made it possible...

The stuff you can see now with the super slo mo cameras is incredible, on some of these violent engine explosions you can sometimes identify various parts exiting and becoming airborne.

As I have gotten older I have less and less tolerance for salty food and the burgers from all the big national chains vary from having some to a lot. So I rarely eat them anymore. Ate a lot of them in the 60s however. They built a Burger King close by where I lived in '64, when they opened a...

Not concerned with value. I bought it because I wanted it and enjoy driving it. As someone above mentioned it's good therapy. Nothing like the wind in your hair and the warm sun on your face to make you feel good. I have spent more on it than I could get back and I intend to spend more in the...

When catalytic converters came around in '75 any truck under 6000 gvw had to have one, which lead to a lot of trucks with gvw ratings just slightly over 6000. Starting in '79 it got bumped up to 8500 gvw. In '76 the fastest vehicle was a Chevy half ton short bed with a 454.

Did the people in the surrounding areas finally mount enough opposition so that drag racing was shut down? Nothing mentioned in the news release about why it's happening. According to news items over the last few years it sounded like pressure was building to make this happen. It's happened...