New Members - Introduce Yourselves Here!

[KMcCullah]

Welcome Troy. It's good to have another FE mud guy around.

[TravisRice]

Travis Rice ------Western, MD. I have a 67 Ford F-250 with a 352. all original with 58,000 miles. Have a 62 Galaxie also ...... its set up for a 385 series though. Saw the post on the Chroming of fiberglass bumpers and joined. I lurk around the Fe Forum but don't post much.

Travis

[jayb]

Welcome, Travis.  Got any pictures of that F-250?  That's a good year...

[TravisRice]

[jayb]

Nice!

[BruceS]

Beautiful survivor!   Those are nice driving, solid trucks.  I owned an F100 long bed from about 1973-77.  I bought mine from a friend who had a new '73 F250 4X4.  I put over 100k on mine and sold it back to the friend 4 years later for the same $$$!  Thanks for posting, Bruce

[My427stang]

Looks good Travis, fellow "bump" owner here too!



Mine's been apart a bunch of times, not a survivor like yous, but my grandfather bought new in 71, I inherited in 1984, only two owner, and always had the same last name on the title.

I say a 445 finished to look like a 352 would be a fun effort!

[KMcCullah]

Welcome Travis- I dig them "bumps" too.

Edit: Your wheels look like late 90's F-250 wheels. What are they?

[fryedaddy]

hello everyone,my name is brian,i live in east tn.im 53 and have been hooked on fe engines since i was 15 when my dad gave me a 63 1/2 galaxie.the 390 in it ran great.i remember riding in it with my dad before it was mine.he would pass 3 or 4 cars at a time on a 2 lane road.i loved the power and sound of these fe engines.that was my first fe.but it was not my last because 38 years later i still run them and i always will.i have some pics of my daily driver comet in the members projects topic.a big HELLO to everybody!

[fekbmax]

Welcome and enjoy, lots of good guys here and lots of knowledge in the pool.

[Bolted to Floor]

Welcome to the group Brian.

[Vintageironlover]

I'm a new member who appears here as Vintageironlover. My name is Scott and I have been a fan of the FE since I was about 10 years old, or since about 1960. I don't currently have a hobby or project car but I'm constantly reading about all this stuff. I found my way to this site after following the last couple of Drag Weeks in Hot Rod Magazine. Growing up in the middle of the golden age of drag racing and the muscle car era was, and still is, a dream. I probably would have started out with an FE-powered car but at that time, in my home town area, there weren't any really good Ford performance guys to get involved with. As it turned out, my first fast car was not a Ford but an 1969 Oldsmobile F-85 with the W-31 package. I learned to drag race with this car and was doing fairly well on our local scene - until I was drafted. I had a couple of Corvettes after Vietnam but also had a family by then, so the toy cars faded from the scene. I served in the Army for 20 years, then got a college degree and worked another 20 years as a Department of the Army Civilian. I retired at the end of 2015, so I may finally end up with an FE hobby car after all. Meanwhile, I really enjoy reading all the posts here and getting educated. You'll probably see questions from me from time to time as I continue my quest. Thanks for letting me join!

[falcongeorge]

For some reason, I thought I'd done an intro on here, but it looks like I never did, and I have already been here about a year! I have played with modified cars literally all my life, did some heads-up 10 wide street car stuff in the late nineties-2003. I am 56 yrs old, not really a Ford guy, or a chevy guy, or a Mopar guy, or anything else, I just like cars. I have three falcons, two '65s and a '67, a 289/t-10 steel ford T-bucket project, I have two other T projects, one full-fendered with a 270hp 283 clone, the other with a desoto hemi, and a '39 Ford convertible that I am putting a 324 Olds and cad-lasalle trans in. I have a 428FE that will be going in one of the ''65 Falcons, the other is getting a 331 and toploader and theres a '71 4v 351C core under my deck, not sure what I am going to do with that yet.
I also have a '66 Chevy II wagon with a 327/200R4 and 4.11s, and a daily driver/shop truck/beater S-10 with a 355 and 700r4 that runs 12.0s, but is getting a bit of a makeover right now, AFR 195's and a cam/intake change. I also have a '66 satellite with a 440, so I have a dog from every town. Well I guess I need an AMC. I also have a '73 Ducati 750 GT. I just basically love cars.

[DesertThunderbird]

Greetings,

I am your newest member, my name is Evan and I've been a fan of the Ford FE since I found that the FE powered some of the coolest fords ever like Thunderbolts and Nascar Galaxies in addition to the immortal Shelby Cobras and Ed Pink's overhead cam fuelie engines. I think that the the FE is the coolest engine ever produced by the Big Three, except for maybe ancient straight-eights or flatheads...

So, some years back while cruising my local Craigslist I found what I was looking for, a sun-bleached, only lightly molested chunk of american iron. I am the proud owner of a 66 thunderbird project car. This particular 'bird spent its whole life in either Mexico or Arizona, had only two rusty spots in the floor boards that were about as big around as a pencil, and came to me complete with the numbers-matching 428 FE. As I type this, the car is currently stripped down to a bare shell, the engine block and crank have been machined and confirmed to be stout pieces, and I need to find a place that will dip or blast the body so I can primer and start doing some engineering on the chassis. The car is a unibody, so it's not as easy as it might be otherwise, but my objective is to build a reasonably stout resto-mod with the FE and an automatic trans. Other planned mods are a six point roll cage, some floor stiffening, and a mod to the steering so if I ever have a prang I have a real seat belt thanks to the cage and the steering wheel doesn't uppercut me and knock my head off.

I am a little nervous about using the stock engine block, though. That block keeps getting more and more scarce. I have seen blocks on Ebay in much worse shape than this one and on their last overbore with an asking price 3X what I paid for this whole car and as I plan on this car being fun and maybe even seeing some nitrous oxide at some point it would be unfortunate to split the numbers-matching block in half. I am on this forum to learn what it takes to make this engine run well and live a long time. Maybe some of you can help me in this endeavor, and help me go fast, when the time comes to build my engine.

Thanks.

[Bolted to Floor]

Welcome to the site. Good luck with the T Bird.