Saturday, January 17, 2009

 

A flathead V8 Ford Story...
A few days ago, a few of us Ford V8 guys got together to talk and tell stories and the good old days, and how we remember them. And try to live them today.

One fellow ask us how fast we had every drove a Flathead Ford on the road.
We had lots of diferent speeds told about. He heard about speed from 55 to over a hundred mph. My story was about an uncle of mine and not me. He was about 50 years old at the time. I guess this was about 1954 or 1955. He had a 46 Ford. He told Dad that he got that Ford up to 70 mph on a long stright away. That was a record for him at the time.

I knew this was a great question, in mixed company (where everybody doesn't know their Flatheads),

A young guy told a more interesting story. There is Nothing like being young.
He was about 30 years old, that wasn't young to him, but it was for a lot of us.
If he started driving at 16, the new cars was 93 models, and a twenty five
year old car at that time would have been a 68 model.


His Story:
I like to say that I've had Abagail up to 90 MPH. The truth is though if I did, I didn't actually see the speedometer reading that. I DID, however, glance down long enough to see a little over 70, both hands on the wheel at the 10 o'clock and 2 o'clock position.

Fenders a'bangin', I'm hunched over, my senses on "high alert" listening and feeling for any problem, watching those white lines fly under my butt "like dots". Right here is where you think of disasterous things like the hood flying up or a tire comming off the front wheel. This is warped speed, captain, and "I donno how much longer I can keep her together".
I really feel that I gained enough speed to make 90, but man, this is crazy! I'm too old for this. I got a loving wife at home and a couple of kids, and a job (with people depending on me), and a little bit of a 401K left, lots of unfinished projects, and that stash of quarters in the jug under the basement steps that no one knows about!
After I got her shut down, I stopped, and sat out there in the middle of the country by myself, smiling, for a loooong time...
Looking at my GPS, the fastest my '50 has gone so far was 76 and that was on a trailer behind my truck! jack........

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posted by Johnnie 3:55 PM

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Monday, July 16, 2007

 

Old FlatHead reborn.

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posted by Johnnie 8:47 AM

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