I loved the Carter carburetors and so a Edelbrock was natural choice. As a kid, always had too much fuel and being a fourteen year old kid in the early sixties meant that I just had to be different. Most kids ran the chevy's, my dad was heavy mopar, his choice of the straight eight and first V8's was his go to. Junk yards were easy to pick parts from as my dad traded there for his rigs and so developed a friendship there and got tons of parts cheap, they even had me pull parts for a customer and give me my parts. I went to the fords and of course back then, no two ford standard transmission had same gear ratios or it would be the shafts inside, different cluster gears... so I had a pile of broken transmissions from dropping the clutch at wide open and expecting it to burn rubber. I did learn a ton racing those old rigs, finding out there was ford transmissions that were dang tuff. The T85 close ratio interceptor from cop cars was bullet proof and would let you make around eighty miles an hour .... pedal to the metal. My dad was a logger so finding out how a turbo worked made my rig take a lot of pink slips home. I thought every year starting in 54 was my favorite year, kind of loved the 57 for a good minute till the 63 1/2 fastback came out. I have never lost that love for that year. Sure as money increased, my pick slip collection increased and all I wanted was their four speed transmissions. Back then when they became very popular with kids, I was able to have four speed transmissions in many rigs not really had the right space,... a back yard butcher in some ways. I built the floors and consoles for them making them look nice. One rig I got had some of the nicest interior and so sewed it into my car, a 59 fairlane two door hardtop. The wrecked mustangs provided a lot of bucket seats and four speeds... and really fell in love with the 302's for my older cars. I now can brag that I owned and drove every year ford made from 39 but did have two 36 chevy pickups. Those rigs had more issues than time to drive them. Wooden door posts were my biggest complaint along with the torque tube drive shaft. My biggest expense was turtle wax, and my girlfriends complained about having to help polish my cars. No wax, no ride... well that is my story, at least the comment is as long as one. Enjoyed the video, been a minute since I was under the hood of any rig, or four wheeler/LOL
I loved the Carter carburetors and so a Edelbrock was natural choice. As a kid, always had too much fuel and being a fourteen year old kid in the early sixties meant that I just had to be different. Most kids ran the chevy's, my dad was heavy mopar, his choice of the straight eight and first V8's was his go to. Junk yards were easy to pick parts from as my dad traded there for his rigs and so developed a friendship there and got tons of parts cheap, they even had me pull parts for a customer and give me my parts. I went to the fords and of course back then, no two ford standard transmission had same gear ratios or it would be the shafts inside, different cluster gears... so I had a pile of broken transmissions from dropping the clutch at wide open and expecting it to burn rubber. I did learn a ton racing those old rigs, finding out there was ford transmissions that were dang tuff. The T85 close ratio interceptor from cop cars was bullet proof and would let you make around eighty miles an hour .... pedal to the metal. My dad was a logger so finding out how a turbo worked made my rig take a lot of pink slips home. I thought every year starting in 54 was my favorite year, kind of loved the 57 for a good minute till the 63 1/2 fastback came out. I have never lost that love for that year. Sure as money increased, my pick slip collection increased and all I wanted was their four speed transmissions. Back then when they became very popular with kids, I was able to have four speed transmissions in many rigs not really had the right space,... a back yard butcher in some ways. I built the floors and consoles for them making them look nice. One rig I got had some of the nicest interior and so sewed it into my car, a 59 fairlane two door hardtop. The wrecked mustangs provided a lot of bucket seats and four speeds... and really fell in love with the 302's for my older cars. I now can brag that I owned and drove every year ford made from 39 but did have two 36 chevy pickups. Those rigs had more issues than time to drive them. Wooden door posts were my biggest complaint along with the torque tube drive shaft. My biggest expense was turtle wax, and my girlfriends complained about having to help polish my cars. No wax, no ride... well that is my story, at least the comment is as long as one. Enjoyed the video, been a minute since I was under the hood of any rig, or four wheeler/LOL
I preferred them on 4x4s, and holley for the street
Thanks for watching, John!!