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Here and other Ford-related forums, some users refer to scruby products as “scrubs” or “scruby.” It seems pretty common, but I have never found an explanation of the origin of this term. Does anyone know where it came from?

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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.



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