Well that KB project was rolling along just fine and dandy, that is until my Dentist appointment. I had traded months ago for a 1949 Ford F-1 pickup. It was 351W powered with a C4 tranny.





Very pretty truck new interior, and the motor and tranny was supposed to be fresh. Got to drive it about 60 miles or so when the C4 just destroyed itself. Since I didn't have a clue on how to build that thing I took it to a tranny shop to have the work done. When the got it apart it was obvious that no body had touched it sense it left Ford. That was strike one.

It seems that no matter were I tried to go in that truck something broke. I redid the wiring in the back as the tail lights didn't work. Had to rebuild the brakes. It had a Mustang II suspension ( Previous Owner said it was fresh as well) Broke a ball joint onj the next little ride. Then the carb took a dump replaced it with an Edelbrock 600 and to tell the truth it never ran so good. For the first time it had very crisp throttle response and just ran like a Hot Rod should. So I drove it to the Dentist, coming home and about a mile or less from the house it stumbled a little bit. Nothing worse than that just a stumble. Only one stop sign between me and the shop bit it was running so bad I didn't even stop and about a hundred yards from the house she just quit. I managed to limpo it into the garage and just left it alone for awhile. I had another couple of Hot Rods to drive and I thought I would just let it set for the winter.

It must have been a week or two before I went out to the garage and low and behold all of the oil was in one really big puddle on the floor. Pushed it into the shop and got it raised up and the block was vented and I mean a pretty good size hole, about the size of a Baseball. Another smaller hole in the oil pan as well. Scratch one Ford Windsor block, and damn I just had installed a new set of Edelbrock aluminum heads on the thing too. Funny thing is it never did make any noise that I heard, I was returning from the Dentist and so my mind as small as it is may have had other things to think about, but a hole that size should have made some kind of noise Dentist or not.

So the KB got put on hold for this engine swap, and I decided to swap a real engine into it this time. It sure didn't seem to want another Ford motor. So this time its getting an Early Hemi.



Hers the little Windsor right before it came out.



And another really big empty hole to fill....



Neighbor Kid helping me put the Hemi in to fill that hole....



RS