Scrub is a part of good hearted banter among car guys.
Exactly. I grew up on a Ford street. All my friends raced Fords. By the time I got my driver's license, Ford had moved on to the FE engines. As a teenager, I idolized guys with 390, 406 & 427 FEs, which seemed to be in everything with four wheels when I was a kid. My first street car was a 56 Ford with a Y-Block that I bought off a car lot for $300. Bagging groceries wasn't a lucrative career choice, so my car didn't win many street races. Later when I started making money, I got into dedicated race cars. It didn't take me long to figure out the way to go fast cheap was to own a scruby. I didn't abandon my love for Fords of all type. My TBird is a time machine. Just starting up my Y-Block brings back all those memories, some good some bad. This forum is about Y-Blocks as it should be. It's fun to poke fun at scruby's, but it's not serious. If I want to get angry at something, I'll watch Toyotas on NASCAR.
