1940 Ford DeLux Convertible.
59 aba block
3 5/8 crank and pistons
Elderbrock intake and heads
Pair of stromburg 97s
Malory Ign
Headers and duels of course
Overdrive, yep, overdrive. 6 gears froward
Paid $100 dollars and sold it for $300 a year or so later.
Next one was a 1954 Ford Sunliner, Linxoln export engine, stretched 4 inchs
and channeled 2 inchs.
104 lovers in the hood, olds tail lights, skirts, lake pipes, nosed and
decked.
Man was I cool.
140 MPH flying mile and my wife even remembers it 47 years ago.
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