I forgot the 1969 Ford Fairlane 500 sports roof tale. Duh.
This is around 1978. Car kept snapping motor mounts when you launched it hard. 428 Cobra Jet with a top loader and a 12 bolt. Well one day it started running lumpy and burning oil. Ignored that for a bit. Thought it was the distributor cap acting up. They loved to cross fire. Well it got worse. Decided to pull the heads and do a valve job as the car was getting near 80K miles.
Did the job in a unheater garage on sub freezing weather in the Winter. No fun. Jumping ahead, when the drivers side head came off, I was wiping out the cyls and then got to number 8. Uh-Oh. the cylinger wall was gouged up and down 90 degress from the load wall. Thought a ring broke, but when we pulled the piston the floater clip must of come off and the wrist pin slipped up against the cylinder. I could barely afford the 3 angle valve job. My buddy knew where there was a wrecked ford wagon with a 390, so he towed that to the garage and we pulled that motor. It was neglected and all sludged up. REALLY sludged up - like thick grey caulk kind of sludge. Must of lost a head gasket at some point. Cleaned that lump up, in the car it went then on went the CJ heads. They fit, they didn't leak. Car ran O.K. Sold the car to some Saudi Prince attending Phillips Academy. John-John Kennedy was also attending at the time. Saleh Kept coming around the McDonald's hangout in town and wanting to buy the Cobra-
Jeet.
Sold it to him for 550 bucks. What's that worth now?!
Similar model, but mine was a greenish-blue colour
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