Today I won a NIB Pertronix Ignitor II, for 57-74 dist.  $19 and shipping.  The listing was very poorly done.  No one could find it!

Mike, located in the Siskiyou mountains, Southern, OR 292 powered 1946 Ford 1/2 ton, '62 Mercury Meteor, '55 Country Squire (parting out), '64 Falcon, '54 Ford 600 tractor.

I went today with a friend of mine to the home his long time buddy and Ford guy. Showed him my 56 and told him of my plans for it. He gave me a set of G heads, aluminum t-housing and pulley, several Y-block books and an original dealer brochure. Still haven't managed to get the smile off my face!! See my other post for pictures of his shop, I'm so envious. Mike

1956 Fairlane Victoria (ORREO)

 

Overlooking Beautiful Rimrock AZ

Can i come next time???

  AussieBill            YYYY    Forever Y Block     YYYY

 Down Under, Australia

YellowWing, you have to be kidding me!!!  Y Parts down here in Australia are as rare as rocking horse s*#t!!!   I would give my eye teeth for a set of those heads and 1.54 rockers to boost up my old trusty 272!!   I couldn't win an arguement with a deaf mute!

Cheers Whitey

My first V8!!

Brisbane, Australia!!

Out here in California my son and I have come across quit a few good scores.we recently found a 292 block with 312 crank,all machine work recent and good work.It had set of 113 heads.It had bad cam with no other issues.I ended up doing some mild port work and a new ISKY cam and away we went.Runs great after 10,000 miles of use. My son bought 60 f100 with a C1AE block with steel crank.All machine was recent and had never been fired.I found out there were some assemby errors and corrected them.We took the small valve heads off and replaced them with some G heads and a RPM300 cam .Instant HOT ROD!And the truck cost 900 dollars!There always seems to be one or two in the local junk yards.They seem to be crushing them fast.

55 fairlane gasser 312 /c4, 57 f100 292/c4, 52 mainline gasser 302/t10 4speed

I found another penny yesterday.


Lawrenceville, GA

This one must be 'for your thoughts' (I'm assuming this expression is known in the US!)

Richard

UK

It's not an expression in this context. I quite literally found a penny. It was on the road under my mail box.


Lawrenceville, GA

Hey charlie, i heard you opened your wallet somewhere near the mail box?

  AussieBill            YYYY    Forever Y Block     YYYY

 Down Under, Australia

I've been pretty busy lately, and unfortunately have not gotten to do too much with any Y block. The new garage is almost there. Should get electric within 2 weeks.

In the meantime, take a look at what I scored at church last night!!! Some of y'all know that I am a pastor at an independent Baptist Church here in Winchester, VA. The people of the church surprised me on Sunday night after the service when an announcement was made about the time I was going to close in prayer.

Then, four of our deacons went to the large closet and wheeled out this huge 60 gallon compressor. "Put it in your new garage!" the church said. To which I gave everyone a good, hearty "thank you" and made plans to haul it out to the house. This is a picture of me with the compressor - it was still in the auditorium - you can see the front pew sticking out on the left hand side of the photo!

Daniel Jessup

Lancaster, California

aka "The Hot Rod Reverend"
check out the 1955 Ford Fairlane build at www.hotrodreverend.com