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my uncles and dad were die hard Ford guys ,
to them it was First On Race Day ,
my first several cars were all mustangs even a cobra Fairlane
I bought a 69 camaro ( my first Chevy still have it ) and I was a out cast to do such a horrible thing are you crazy buying a chevy .. sadly dad and my uncles all are gone now RIP maybe to the big ford dealership in the sky
oh you left out one not PC but close enough for now F(*&^%&^% Old Rusty Dodge
"oh you left out one not PC but close enough for now F(*&^%&^% Old Rusty Dodge" ... Good One !
Fix or repair daily / Found on road dead ... were my first, about 1967. 😋
I had a Falcon. That cured me.
Some good ones there!😛 I bleed blue.😉
64 Galaxy -427 cid, 2 holy double pumpers on an Offy tunnel ram.
Sunday, Sunday, Sunday at Atco Dragway !!!
Yes fords are great, but never had a dodge could not get me in one. Driven a chevy to 300k without tune up. Rusted out on me. Have 1988 ford f150. 300/6speed running like new. Work truck. Just going by my experience. Drive what keeps going for the best money
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Always been a Ford man, but have owned a few chevys, My first was a 67 Mustang (Messed Up S#it That Ain't No Good) and I remember (Found On Road Dead) and (F_^ked Over Rebuilt Dodge) as the most common sayings in my day. I still have 95 F250 that I bought new and a 2006 F150 I got when stepdad passed. Also have two Tauruses dead in my yard...
I would rather push my Ford than drive a Chevy!
Yep, I would rather have a sister working in a house of ill repute than a brother driving a Chevy!😁
I drove Chevy's and Buick's, with a Dodge Charger thrown in for good measure !
1972 to Present 😎 ... currently a 1999 4wd Chevrolet Blazer
127K on the odo > still going strong, starts on the first turn of the key ! 😀
I started building small block Chevy's in '58. 20 years ago my son and I built a '71 Camaro with a 406 SBC to race at Raceway Park in Indy. Those days are over now and drive a '15 K1500 but do have a '70 Malibu in my shop. I'll probably never finish it though.
"Over 98% of all Chevrolets are still on the road today".
And the Fords all made it back to the garage.
*snerk*
Somewhat of an insult to Datsuns.
Has anyone ever made up one of those sayings for Chevrolet?
Cracked Head, Every Valve Rattles, Oil Leaks and Eats Tires.
I will walk before I ride in a furd.🙃
I like the musrat letters Ruger, new one for me.
I would do Pontiac but would get PC crowd upset.
BMW = Big Money Wasted.
I thought about the PONTIAC too.
This works!
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And by the way, Furd dealerships around here are giving a free puppy with each purchase.
They are thinking of the drivers well being, kind of like a emotional service dog. When your furd breaks down you won't have to walk home alone.
We have had some really cold winters and with all the fancy tailgate accessories,one dealer is installing heaters in the tailgates as a sales promotion.
On a quiet nite you can hear the chevys rusting . Friends don't let friends drive chevys .Full disclosure , I owned a 1962 Super 88 Oldsmobile , a1970 Corvette convertible and a 1981 El Camino . Every thing else has been a FOMOCO product . Last truck was a 1995 f-150 that I drive 326,000 miles with less than $1000.00 in repairs over its lifetime . Current ride is a 2018 f150 super cab . Long term project is a 1956 Mercury Monterey Phaeton four door with less than 37,000 miles ,bought new by my grandfather
Yeah, I almost posted the Pontiac one in my earlier post but didn't want to get in trouble...
There is a Book that says something like this, "man born of woman is of few days and full of trouble", I think.
back in the day any one changing spark plugs in a big block ford with the shock towers what seemed like 1/2" away and the back spark plugs were also a PITA from personal experience on 390 428 and 429 wedged in the eng bay
my first Chevy was a 69 Camaro 396 BBC the access to change plugs is like night and day to the big ford engines just one example not to mention parts inner change
as for cars and trucks build at least in the last 20 years are for the most part all like putting 10 pounds of crap packed into a one pound bag . noting is easy
I remember when younger the brand of car you drove was almost fighting words as time went by most decided the common ground of liking muscle cars over shadowed any brand name
I truly like chevy as my favorite but would love to have a 427 sonic ford galaxy boss 429 mustang or a 440 six pack or 426 cuda 😁
My kinda Ford
it took me years to like the GT40 not sure why maybe because it was just a race car . and watch the movie ford vs ferrari good movie
now a 427 AC cobra are things my dreams were made of . if I ever win the lottery I would have one . my family doc has a high end replica of a AC 427 side oiler 4 speed cobra . I was suppose to go for a ride with him then the covid scare hit and every thing was off
A friend of mine in Spokane was a high school teacher and he bought a real 427 Cobra decades ago, and set it on blocks in his garage as his retirement. In all those years he never put 50 miles on it, because nobody would sell him insurance.
I was over visiting one day and bent over to look at the engine, about to put my fists/knuckles on the edge of the engine bay (so I wouldn't leave fingerprints). He stopped me, then pointed. Along the edge where I was going to put my hands were 8 small dents in the aluminum bodywork where someone had done the same thing.
It was painted a horrendous faded magenta with white stripes. A couple years later I had my boy at the Fairchild AFB car show and there it was with a rope around it and DO NOT TOUCH signs. The guy next to me was telling his boy about the "replica Cobra big block" and I bent down and pointed and showed my boy the 8 small dents. "See those? That's the real thing."
Beautiful car. Back in 1982 it was worth just over $600,000. Now? Priceless.
one smart fellow . have read the old race cars not just the cobra the body's were almost like tin foil they were so thin to get as light as possible , and as you said leaning on one would cause some damage real fast .
closest thing to a high dollar car I ever was around a local fellow in town had a 70 hemi cuda back in the mid to late 1970's
I would guess around 1980 give or take a year some fellow tracked it down that lived in Cal. and started the got to have it calls . from what I learned later on the local fellow said no way no how . ... but a plane trip and 10k cash the car was on the way to California . at the time 10k cash would have been hard to turn down . however I would wager every time a Barrett Jackson or similar big car auction comes on tv . he cries a little ( or maybe a lot )
And no one has mentioned the dreaded, F'd Over Rebuild Dodges? (or were they all deleted?)
iceracerx i had that one in previous post above...
I just loved the Edsel with the "toilet seat" front grill🙃
apparently so did a lot more people 😁
it was by most accounts according to the car shows and history stories was just ahead of its time by too much and just kept buyers away
I would think the horse collar / toilet seat grill did not help
lets not forget the pinto and vega and colt
I was a Maverick man back in the day. Straight 6 cyl. 3 on the tree and very easy to work on. My then girlfriend (later wife) named that car "Maudy". It was a 1970 2 door that was later traded in for a 1973 Chevy Nova 2 dr. She named that one "Nelly" 😎
She was so good at naming cars that I let her name all of our 4 sons.
one of departed uncles who was a major influence on me and drag racing and cars .too many stories RIP Tom
any way he bought a 1970 maverick grabber when they came out it was a bright green with black stripes and a 302 4 speed he added a cam headers and changed the gear ratio he traded in a super nice I think 67 /maybe 68 390 4 speed Fairlane GT ( I wish I had now )
but he also sold me my first car in 1974 total of 800.00 a 1965 ( it may have been a 64 1/4 ) bright red 289 3 speed mustang that came from Arizona some old man and lady had just moved here to Ohio a few houses down from my uncle it was super nice to say the least
it would be a rare car now another sad moment and loss but I took out the front bench seat ( yep factory bench in a mustang ) the A/C put in a 4 speed took out the prefect red interior and replaced it with a all black set with bucket seats from a local wrecking yard ( cost me 100.00 ) added cragars , headers , shackles if you old fellers remember them added big rear l-60-15 tires air shocks then ran the snot out of it .. I miss that car so much so many memories and all my run around buddies from back then have all died ( rip to bunch of misfits like me )
my mom always said there going to have cut Tom ( her brother ) out of a car some day . but he put the car fever and loved to race and could never go fast enough into me so his title of being cut out of a car transferred to me LOL crashed a lot but lucky ( may still happen I have not given up still have two 69 bbc camaros) I run the crap out of .
Good friend I grew up with and he works for me. Last name Horney.
Drag raced a Maverick, fast one to. Announcer would say "it's Horney all the way down the track".
Goodness that was 50 years ago.
Back when I was teaching middle school (and when NASCAR meant real racin'!!) I had a pair of boys who were convinced Fords were near perfection because they would win some races.
One Monday when Ford had won a big race they were yakking about how good those Fords were.
I just shrugged and said, sure they won. A big team of top mechanics worked on them for weeks getting them ready to drive 500 miles and they next week they were back in the garage for a full rebuild. No wonder they run well!
They kinda looked at each other and couldn't argue with my logic😁
You never know
How 'bout this?
And on the seventh day the Lord did walk close to his Thunderbolt, and it came to pass that he popped the hood, to gaze upon the race-prepped 427 he had created, and he saw that it was good. There were 8 venturis upon the aluminum intake, gilded flags upon the aluminum fenders, and this too was good.
So the Lord closed the blessed hood and did drive from the garden of Dearborn, until he came to the house of Chevrolet, where Satan was again lamenting that his camshaft had once again walked through the tin can timing cover.
And the Lord didst ask "Why art thou persisting with such mechanical heresy? Turn thee to the light and see that the oval is blue".
And Satan grunted, for his water pump-on-a-stick didst fall upon him, he was of foul humor, and he knew that weak small blocks and rear-mounted distributors would not cure the ills he had passed onto gullible men.
Seeing this, the Lord didst spin his tires all the way into 4th gear, and lo Satan was enshrouded in a curious blue mist that not being of oil, didst confuse him, and he was unable to see the light through the heavenly cloud of burning rubber and the smell of leaded race fuel.
And so it came to pass that Satan remained loyal to the house of Chevrolet, wasting away whilst his manufacturing facilities churned out engine blocks forged from recycled Corona bottle caps.
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I still get that old logo song stuck in my head on occasion.
"Have you driven a FORD Lately?" oh crap! I did it again! It's back! 😯
That was great, HPD!!!