http://classifieds.rennug.com//classifieds/viewad.cgi?adindex=3978978 "For Sale: I have rescued a 55 Ford country station wagon, 4 door, they plucked its heart and transmission, and was going to run it through a press, diamond in the rough, make a awesome rat rod with a straight axle and a Ford nine inch, old gasser, the glass is good, the body is fair, the frame is decent, the lower A frame is broke loose on the passenger side, interior is a little rough. Somebody should make a nice gasser out of this, it has been in a barn for 30 years. Give me a call if interested. Serious inquiries only. Please no e-mails." (number in ad)
101Volts, as I read this again I understand you recued the wagon. That one is a major project for someone.
No, I just copied and pasted the ad hence the quotation marks. Sorry - I have my hands full as it is working on the Suburban which isn't a mess like this poor thing.
Who would want that Y-block engine?? Smokey Yunick called them boat anchors and that's nothing to sneeze at. They sold rocker arm shaft oiler kits for those engines at the parts stores when they were only a couple of years old. I was actually able to find one at an old parts store in the 70's for a '56 Vicky I had. It contained copper lines that you ran ran from fittings on the oil filter adapter to fittings that went in a couple of holes drilled in the each valve cover and would squirt oil on the rocker arm shafts. A Rube Goldberg looking deal to say the least. The front tubular crossmember would also get overstressed or rust out and bend or break in half, may not be the control arm but where it attaches. Ford also had dealer kits with v shaped and corrugated steel angle pieces they'd weld on those crossmembers to strengthen them.
Blue V I had a 1954 V-8 Ford. Was that the same engine? Not a lot of power and the oil pump went out 100 miles from home. The car was full of Model A fenders and other parts. I just kept stopping, letting it cool, added oil and drove until it went to zero again and again! Adding oil seemed to increase oil pressure. It didn't sound well when I got home so I filled it with oil and traded for a VW Beetle. Never heard a thing about the Ford.
Uh... OK Then. On another subject it sure is educational hearing of how stock cars in the 1950s and 1960s really were. I can see why people were so interested in buying something new then.
Engines didn't last like these newer cars. In 1999 my dad and I restored a 1957 Chevrolet 210 Del Ray. The license plate on it was from 1968 and everything was original on car. It had 2 melted pistons with just 38,000 miles. Someone took the heads off the 283, wrapped them in newspaper, put them in trunk and left the car in a shed until we bought it from the person who found it in the shed...closest we ever came to a barn find, we found it on back of his roll back with a 4 Sale sign on it.
