Lon, Moz, kind words but just another long time y blocker like many here! Its been a lifetime of adventures with them and still find them exciting everyday! I enjoy the knowledge and expeirences we all share here. best regards bill.

  AussieBill            YYYY    Forever Y Block     YYYY

 Down Under, Australia

You Aussies never fail to amaze me.  I think pure Hotrodding was/is more alive down under than it is up here.

   God Bless.   Tim                           http://yblockguy.com/

350ci Y-Block FED "Elwood", 301ci Y-Block Unibody LSR "Jake", 312ci Y-Block '58 F-100, 338ci Y-Block powered Model A Tudor

tim@yblockguy.com  Visalia, California    Just west of the Sequoias

Tim, i think the reason was the fact that we were so far removed from the world by being a big island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, no one ever thought outside our shores and had to improvise with what we had, so many achievements were had. There were a few older guys that made the journey across to the US ; Jim Broardly ( DIABLO MOTORS) in particular started importing speed equipment back here for boat racers and the like and gradually opened the pathway across, now of course with communication barriers broken by internet etc, cheap flights, we have access to everything and i think in contrast you guys had many big parts outlets, napa,peps, etc that had most parts on the shelves compared to none here at all. We were allways 10 years behind the US in modernising and as i visited there, it was when i got back ,the buildings, shops, outlets, garages, fast food places  here had slowly but surely caught up! and now is on par with the US. But in all fairness there were and still are inovators with great achievments everywhere. This is only my personal view and thought i would like to share my thoughts. regards bill.

  AussieBill            YYYY    Forever Y Block     YYYY

 Down Under, Australia

 But in all fairness there were and still are inovators with great achievments everywhere.

I really think the Aussies have a LOT of very creative rodders, perhaps because you couldn't waltz into Walmarts and pick up a stroker crank or intake. We, outside of this group and others like us, have lost that.  Everything except Miker's roadster seems to be a glass bodied 32 with a scrub in it, stateside.

Frank/Rebop

Bristol, In ( by Elkhart) 

Frank, the idea of the eternal muscle car is mustang and hotrod, a glass 32 roadster seems to be the accepted standard, sadly  even here! ( like tupperware bowls). The real muscle cars and hotrods all had their own character and soul, i go to car shows and rod runs and most cars are lifeless, all the same! why? because its easy to go buy all the parts from outlets and pick up any magazine showing how to rebuild them. Sorry but its a sore point when i see the owners of these talking like they invented the automobile. Own a 50,s-60 fullsize ford and go from there, put your character into it and then you have a car!

  AussieBill            YYYY    Forever Y Block     YYYY

 Down Under, Australia

Seems like the Aussies and New Zealanders are where we were in the 60's. Hopefully, they never get to where we are now. Total lack of imagination, little or no skills, crate motors, rolling chassis hotrod kits, turnkey hotrods.

I hauled a tidy pedal assembly from an MGB to a swap meet about 15 years ago. It had pb booster and master cylinders ready to bolt up to firewall and not one guy out of maybe 10,000 even looked at it. I knew how much we had lost in creativity. They'll buy a $600.00 pedal kit then complain about the cost of "building" a car.

http://ford-y-block.com 

20 miles east of San Diego, 20 miles north of Mexico

That's why I give a ridiculous price (because it's not for sale but it does have a price) to anyone wanting to buy my truck. Then they look at me like I'm crazy. They have no clue how much work was involved getting it where it is and how much remains.

I guess one does have to be crazy to work on it in 95 degree weather, in the sun, all summer long. Even in the rain.


Lawrenceville, GA

Total lack of imagination, little or no skills, crate motors, rolling chassis hotrod kits, turnkey hotrods.

Jep, that's why I didn't buy 50-60 dollar push button plate from Chassis Shop. I made my own for zero euros. Not as good as their, but it'll work

 Seppo from Järvenpää, Finland
www.hollowheads.net (just click the hole in the head to proceed)

dont worry guys we have those problems over here as well young people wont buy a hot rod unless itsfully done & registered & they want it for nothing & it has to have a gen3 crate engine.

moz. geelong victoria australia.

graduate 1980, bus, truck, car, hot rod, boat, submarine, hovercraft, hydrafoil, firetruck, mobile home, jet, helicopter, cruise ship, motorcycle, bicycle, santa's sleigh, clock, alloy bullbar, alloy fuel tank, lens, dr who's tardis, matter - anti matter warp drive buffer & y-block lover

I'm sure most here feel the same way but I have always thought that getting there is MORE than half the fun, weather it is a road trip or a project. That's why I take lots of pictures along the way to remember it by, in both cases.   When I was growing up I waited with much anticipation as my dad would make, not buy, me a toy of some sort working in his little garage shop showing the process all the way (he would never work on something while a was doing something else) when it was all done that toy ment so much more to me than any store bought thing.  He was building an Erickson cycle hot air engine last before he passed.  He was a great man to me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5O5_4jpweY

   God Bless.   Tim                           http://yblockguy.com/

350ci Y-Block FED "Elwood", 301ci Y-Block Unibody LSR "Jake", 312ci Y-Block '58 F-100, 338ci Y-Block powered Model A Tudor

tim@yblockguy.com  Visalia, California    Just west of the Sequoias