Defilement #1

"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile) 01/22/2018 at 15:45 • Filed to: None

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Well, it had to happen sooner or later. I was going to be consistently keeping the Galaxie all FERD parts, but as it turns out, a ‘68ish GM replacement e-brake handle will be perfectly suitable...

Like fuck am I paying $100-$400 for a complete e-brake mechanism when I can get a brand-new handle for <$20 that will work.

Correct handle.

atfsgeoff > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 01/22/2018 at 15:57

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That’ll cost you when you take the car to a Concours D’Elegance

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > atfsgeoff 01/22/2018 at 15:59

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I’ll already be getting dinged for the modern-length (and chromed) dipstick instead of the screwy extra-long early windsor one, and my plug wires are non-Motorcrack, so YOLO

WilliamsSW > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 01/22/2018 at 16:00

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And so the slippery slope to an LS-swapped Galaxie begins...

CalzoneGolem > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 01/22/2018 at 16:04

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This is how it starts. Before long you’ll be contemplating how nice an SBC would be.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > WilliamsSW 01/22/2018 at 16:07

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I dunno, mang, I really like the way the 289 revs. An LS isn’t quite enough of an alluring bad idea to want to give that up.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > CalzoneGolem 01/22/2018 at 16:09

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Lies. Hideous lies. Buick 401 or GTFAC.

CalzoneGolem > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 01/22/2018 at 16:12

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You’re already exploring the cheap and easy GM solutions.

WilliamsSW > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 01/22/2018 at 16:12

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Mmm, torquey.

WilliamsSW > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 01/22/2018 at 16:14

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There are plenty of bad ideas from Ford that you won’t have to do an LS-swap if you ever decide the 289 just doesn’t have enough oomph for that car.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > CalzoneGolem 01/22/2018 at 16:15

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Well, I mean, I know Cadillac bellhousings exist for a version of the Cruise-O-Matic, so getting a Cadillac 365 would just be common sense, right?

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > WilliamsSW 01/22/2018 at 16:19

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I could always wait until I actually have All The Money and buy a 427, 15" wheels, and 300 caps and pretend it was some kind of unholy abomination R-code sedan.

Or, for other FoMoCo bad ideas, there are still high-compression MELs around, up to nearly 500 cubes when overbored.

WilliamsSW > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 01/22/2018 at 16:25

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I had the pleasure of listening to this car idle for a while at a Mecum auction last fall - it’s a G-code, not R-code, but goddamn that thing sounded good!

The R-code would be sweet, but would cost all the dollars.

CalzoneGolem > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 01/22/2018 at 16:25

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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > WilliamsSW 01/22/2018 at 16:28

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While spending All The Dollars, one could always commit year blasphemy and set it up with a SOHC.

There was somebody in this area on Craigslist selling a six-pack 406 ‘62 a while back, and that thing was the sex. A tad overpriced at nearly 40 grand (IIRC), but so very sweet.

WilliamsSW > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 01/22/2018 at 16:33

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Well it won’t be numbers matching anyways, so why not go full out and go with the SOHC?

Was the car blue? If so, it’s probably the same one - good luck finding a muscle car auction in the last 18 months that the car pictured was *NOT* at. Not sure why - greedy owner maybe.

WilliamsSW > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 01/22/2018 at 16:35

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Oh and that blue one was RNM at $40k in the auction I was at.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > WilliamsSW 01/22/2018 at 16:36

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On the topic of R-code Galaxies:

https://peterwindsor.com/2013/08/05/a-galaxie-win-for-clark/

I’ve seen a picture from that race that doesn’t show up in the article, and it’s a picture from behind of one of the Galaxies looking ready to devour a Cortina whole.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > WilliamsSW 01/22/2018 at 16:36

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I recall the one I saw listed as either being blue or black. Might have been black. Either way, not a common bird, but not unheard of either.

WilliamsSW > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 01/22/2018 at 17:13

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Yeah, I just note it because that blue one has been making the rounds quite a bit the last year or two.

WilliamsSW > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 01/22/2018 at 18:37

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I love stories and photos of those old race cars - took a hell of a lot of guts to wring out a car like that at high speeds, wearing a lap belt, in a car with no real crash protection.