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| Great pics...........thanks for posting...... |
| By P - 03/05/2002 9:38:08 AM; IP 66.89.75.42 |
these were the weapon of choice for Ford when they were competing against the 348 Chevy plank head boat anchor.
After Ford ran all over Chevrolet for a couple of years with heads like these, Chevy was motivated to get back into the hunt.
In 1961 Ford and Chevrolet both threw their cards on the table again Chevy had the 409, and Ford cards had 390 cubes.
You can see how fast Ford scrambled for more cubes, having introduced the 406 and 427 in the next two years.
In 1963-1/2 when Ford rolled out the 427, the party at GM was over........and during the 1963, 64, and 65 season, Ford won 101 NASCAR races to 9 (nine) for the Chevrolet boat anchor.
Cool piece of Ford high performance history ya got there! I was in high school at the time, but I do remember a guy who had one that was a few years old, but still faster than a scalded cat. I recall how the front of the car would kind of raise up at speed when he applied power in any gear. It was pretty crazy back then, when high school kids were out on the roads with power (and chassis) like that!! One other nice thing about those days, many of the SUV's were powered by FE's (we had a 1959 Ford Station Wagon that had a Thunderbird motor, and it would eat up the road with ease.
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