My dads first car was a 35 Chevrolet that had been hit by a train. He never said how bad it was but he was living in town going to a vocational school to be a mechanic and I'm sure it was cheap. His best friends father ran a garage they fixed it up enough to drive. My first remembrance was a 55 Chevy he had wrecked and him driving it to the junk yard to sell it. After that there was a 46 ford pickup with a wood bed on the back. The frame rusted and broke. He had a 50 model F2 he drove by for a while till the motor started knocking and he parked it. Then there was a string of 50 to 52 Chevrolet cars he had one good engine that he would transplant. When he needed to haul something usually a boat. He borrowed his father's 50 ford pickup. This is to long of a story. Point I was getting to was that he wouldn't rebuild a motor although he could, particularly the flathead fords. He would go to town and get a rogers rebuilt motor and put in it. His 51 F56 he put seven in it before he got a good one. They would be cracked and soon as we would crank them up they would bubble out of the radiator. We take the right back out and get another one. I was big enough to hand wrenches. We put four in. Then the parts place gave him his money back and wouldn't sell him anymore. Then he went to the ford dealership and bought a rebuilt engine from them, but they had a guarantee that if theirs was bad they would put the next one in. They ended up putting in two more before they got a good one. Then there was falcons, country squire wagons three of them, then he bought a brand new 73 ford pickup. Wrecked the first one and bought another. Then another string of ford station wagons. Then 5.7 diesel cars and pickups. Then 6.2s I got work on every one of them except the 98 Oldsmobile mom had, it never had a leaking head gasket. Ron
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