New Load-1 Driver

chefdennis · Jan 8, 2012

LOL, Scott sometime if you think about it, ask me about the dumb decision i made in 1973 when offered to either buy a New Pantera or get married.....

scottm4211 · Jan 8, 2012

I passed on a Shelby Mustang too

chefdennis · Jan 8, 2012

ScottM wrote:

I passed on a Shelby Mustang too

LOL yea,,,My parents were sooo prove of me figuring that i had matured and grown up...it had nothing to do with maturity at all...LOL...

guido4475 · Jan 8, 2012

chefdennis said:
Scottm wrote:

351 Ford Cleveland canted valve motor!! Way underrated at 400 bhp for insurance purposes....

I use to do aligments on those Panteras for a Lincoln Mercury dealership..had to add 200 lbs of weight to the drivers seat and 150 lbs to the pass seat to "load the chassis" to get the proper settings in caster and camber....loved test driving them!!!

I had a Ford Torino with a 351 Cleveland in it, it ran like a scalped chicken, when ever it would gain traction form burning the tires off.The valves in the heads were big enough to ventilate a coal mine.The C-6 transmission did a wonderful job, never coming apart, along with the detroit locker rearend.It was on e bad and extremely fast car...alot of tires were bought back in the day..Hoping one day to get something like that again.Just in case anybody is wondering, a 351 Windor was built in Windsor, and was a punched out 289 engine.It was considered a small block Ford engine.Then the 351 Cleveland engine,built in Cleveland, on Brookpark rd, is considered a 335 series engine, which is a medium sized block. The real good one to get is the Australian-made 4-V engine, which is extremely rare.The 351 engine was one of the very few, if any, that had a different head for the 2 barrel carb, and a different one for the 4 barrel carb, the valve size and head size making the difference.The big block engines, 390, 352, 427, 429, 460, were torque engines.