I overheard two scrubbies talking at a swapmeet about 10 years ago. Both were building 37 Fords and were talking about their choice of engines, which of course were 350's. After a while they finally  agreed that the best thing was they were "cheap and easy".

I bit my tongue and didn't ask them how they picked their wives.

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

Reading this post which i love , i remembered a friend of mine has among his cars a very nice 36 ford coupe with Ch&%*&zz# engine in it, i gave him a set of y block valve covers which he cleverly grafted onto the scrub! ones, also a later y block element style air filter, painted the engine a ford color and at first glance looks like a y block!! he,s almost forgiven!

  AussieBill            YYYY    Forever Y Block     YYYY

 Down Under, Australia

First of all, I Love the title of this post and is a daily fact of life in my world. And the thing about hiding the motor trying to make it look like a Olds/Pontiac/ whatever, I just don't know why they do that in the first place. Just a FYI, have a local friend here that had a 39 Buick, all custom with a very tired 350 in it. So he bought a G.M. crate motor for it as a quick replacement, ah 7 motors later he finally got a good one. If I had to change my "new" motor 7 times I think I'd look for soemthing else to put in.

Michael

Sandy Valley, NV

You got to remember these people go all out to disguise what they have - valve covers that look like Olds or even Fords.

54 Victoria 312;  48 Ford Conv 302, 56 Bird 312
Forever Ford
Midland Park, NJ

I don't know if this has been mentioned here before, I guess I don't read everything, but you know all the scrub guys are using the new 4-7 swap cams that make them the same firing order as the Y-Block to get a few more HP.

   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

I should have.. that would be hilarious.. i'm too nice though so i explained how a 383 is put together.. (ps. it's Hill not Bill, no worries though)

Dustin

Southern Oregon Y's Guy

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Bill:

Maybe you should have told him Chrysler products from the '60s and '70s.  Convince him there was a strike at the chev engine plant and they bought engines from Chrysler during that time period. 

John - "The Hoosier Hurricane"

i was talking to a friend of my dad's the other day and he is a big chevy guy.. he told me he wanted to put a 383 in his Corvette.. then he asked me what vehicles chevy put the 383 in so he could find one.. i tried not to laugh..

Dustin

Southern Oregon Y's Guy

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Come on guys! Its the holidays. Lets show some compassion for our "scrub impaired" friends. (not too much though) Chuck in NH

Y's guys rule!
Looking for McCullouch VS57 brackets and parts. Also looking for 28 Chrysler series 72 parts. And early Hemi parts.

MoonShadow, 292 w/McCulloch, 28 Chrysler Roadster, 354 Hemi)
Manchester, New Hampshire

It amazes me how you constantly hear about how the small scrub has been in continuous production since 1955.. the lemmings actually believe it even though the current version resembles a Ford design more than the orginal.