Greetings and salutations to you, Fordophiles!
I suppose I should introduce myself. I've had a long stream of Fords since they sold my company American Motors. My father used to have a high-perf garage in Dallas where we worked on stock cars as well as drag cars and whatever came in the shop. Across the street was a GM dealership and we used to drive them crazy. The best 454 big blocks they could build were routinely stomped into the dirt by our 395 inch AMC engines. Lived for several years virtually at the drag strip. We ran 700 inch pro stock cars in the late eighties, my little brother drove. I got to play with Ford true Boss 302 and 351, and Mopar monsters 426 true Hemi and 440 among other varied V-8s from the sixties.
Ran a '74 Mustang II for a while till hail took it out, later got two Tempos, one Contour and two Focus cars, those five are all running fine. Got a 1980 Pinto wagon beater that I intend to get back running before I die. Lots of hotrod motorcycle work in there too. I've turned into a 4 cylinder man, and have never paid for car work of any type, all done by me.