The question of the day.....

I have a good friend who is currently building a 32 Ford sedan and it has a Chevy power plant in it an of course a Ford 9". I met another friend of his the other night at a party and this guy owns not one but four 32 Ford coupes and they are all powered by...you guessed it Chevys. I give him **** about bastardizing (sp?) Ford Classics by putting Chevys in them. It's like if you like Chevys so much why dont you buy a 32 Chevy and put a chevy engine in it? Be true to the brand man! Even though these guys love their 32 Fords and their cool lines they are Chevy guys through and through. It is in their blood. I really do not get it myself.
I see a guy ocasionaly down in Pamona with a 57 Chevy and he has a Ford 429 under the hood. If this Chevy logic has any weight to it, I'll swear he is a Ford guy. I have yet to get a pic of his car but it is on my list.
So with that said, I too would say no Fords with Chevys in them in this new forum.
Ras Daniel

Originally Posted by deadhorse

well its kinda confuseing -- its a ford site but its a -- street rod forum---not a ford street rod forum-- and the pic in the other thread is a hemie -- ????- isthis street rods -- or is this ford street rods --help its makeing my head hurt--

i want my mommy

You better call for your mommy! The car on the other post is a BOSS 429 and last time I checked that is a Ford motor!

Getting back to the initial question, I don't think you have much choice but to accept the
C&^%y engine in whatever model early Ford it is installed. That's just the way the hobby is! The sbc follows the conforms of the flathead almost to a T and can be made to make HP inexpensively, whereas a Ford-in-a-Ford created all kinds of obstacles just to make it fit. 99% of "street rods" follow this line of thinking from a long time ago so just grin and bare it. It's also sort of a generational thing too. Us older guys grew up seeing the early hot rods and that's what we emmulate but you younger guys are more of a rice-rocket crowd with later Mustangs mixed in. As your kids grow up, theyll find their own niche of car (if they can be pried from their computers or game boys). There'll always be a conflict as to what is a street rod. Granted, this is a Ford dedicated sight and that's what you're looking for but don't get in a huff if that's not what you get here

Lee

well if they want an engine that is easy why not stick with the flathead, after all you'd have a hard time finding a motor that looks as good. the best (or i guess worst) ones i've seen have always had aftermarket blue oval emblems added on but what were they running, oh yeah sbcs?

Also they sit there and say oh the 351w wouldnt fit as well, why not try a 302 in regular version or stroked out to a 347. Oh theres kits for the chevy, well thats great just be like everybody else and buy the kit. I'm sure theres kits for the ford out there if you really bothered.

The everybody else thing also bothers me about what street rods seem to have become. Usually now they're all unfortunately the same just with a different paint job. Even worse are some of the people who own em, i remember one old guy stuck at the gas station cause his flat head (thank god) hot rod wouldn't start. I tried helping him out, and all he kept saying was "the engines flooded", well he was still stuck there when i drove back by (an hour later) so i doubt his engine was flooded, but i guess he knew more about it then i did because he was old and it was his hot rod.

That said i'm starting to like rat rods, patina paint and fast engines .

Ford bodied and ford powered, IMO.

Dumb question here. Model A's, T's, 32 Chevy's and the like Street Rods/Hot Rods of today, aren't most all of them fiberglass kits or bodies? So can you really call a fiberglass Ford Model A a Ford? Does it matter there's a chevy engine in a car Ford didn't actually build?

Ed

im a hard core ford guy but i do agree we should let the chevy powered cars in and any others because it was all thoses cars that made hot rods ,muscle cars what they are ford flathead,cadillac,283 chev,buick nailhead and so on if thoses old guys wouldnt have done what they did we wouldnt have what we do.

I'm a ford guy till the day I die. I understand where you comiing from but, you guy might be over looking the the possible hookups on parts and advice. I know on th galaxie forum it's more about guys that share the same love for their cars.Lets face it chevy powered street rods are very popular. love it or hate it, it's your foum