I am an old car guy. Like old cars, old trucks, classics, chrome, V8's, and all the rest, but this show called "Desert Valley Car Kings" ought to be called Desert Valley Scrub Clones. Don't watch enough TV to keep up with all of these types of car resto/mod shows, but I watched a couple of episodes that we had tivo'd, and I obviously wasted my time..except for some good laughs.

The owner of Desert Valley Auto Parts gave the above quote about the 292 after he raised the hood on a 62 Galaxie project that his "crack team" of professional restorers were about to delve into. Went on about how it's not worth anything with that motor, the 292 can't get more than 200 horses out of it, you can't get any horses out of a Y block no matter how much money you spend, blah, blah, blah. Then they went out and put a 351? in the thing and wondered why they broke even at auction when it only went for $6500? Is this show for real?

Just more of the anti-Y block mass media indoctrination...the conspiracy continues.

One good point...seems that they do have a lot of classic car metal and parts in their huge yard. Anybody ever visited there?

Daniel Jessup

Lancaster, California

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