We went to Des Moines a couple of weeks ago to attend the Goodguys show (an excellent one, by the way). This is about a 700 mile round trip, and was the first time we've ventured more than 10 miles from home in a car that we've spent the last 5 years rescuing from the crusher.

This trip was made in a car that:

• Seats 6 grown people in comfort
• Rides smoothly,
• Handles pretty well
• Will run 100 MPH plus
• Sounds great and...
• Got 24 miles per gallon.

It has:

• No computers
• No fuel injection
• No electronic engine or transmission controls
• No plastic body panels
• No aerodynamic aids

This is a 56 Ford with a 292 and FordoMatic. It's bone stock except for a Pertronix conversion and a later model 2 barrel intake and carb. Makes a person wonder why car makers today build undersized, plastic jellybeans that you have to be a contortionist to get in or out of. And with all the great advances of the past 50 years, they still don't run any cheaper than our old Y-Blocks.

Amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Paul,

Boonville,MO

I was just reading a book, its shows all kinds of old cars from around the world, in it I saw it talk about the 1962 falcon, it gets 30MPG, yeah 30! from a carbureted inline 6.



and all the new car commercial boast about the 30+ MPG from their "more computing power then the space shuttle" computer controlled muti port fuel injection and coil over plug, its like, 30mpg, so what, they have been doing that some 40 years ago, and it looks hell a lot more interesting then today's cookie cutter designed cars.