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Originally Posted by Dave Severson

It is really, really tempting to set a Ford in the 'maro---but it's being built for resale, just not sure how many would be interested in a Ford powered chebbie..... and now that I was given a 383 for it....well, guess it's gonna be all chebbie....

Dave - how can you sleep at night knowing that it will be powered by that "other" brand??

Originally Posted by IC2

Dave - how can you sleep at night knowing that it will be powered by that "other" brand??

It's tough, Dave.... but knowing that when the 'maro is all done and sold the money will be going for Ranchero parts, well, I guess that's the thing that keeps me going on it. All of the Ford guys around have established a boycott of my garage til it's gone!!!!! I tell ya what, after being one of the Ford Only guys around here for so many years, I catch a bunch of **** about building a 'maro everyday---even if it is just for resale!!!!! A few months back some of the chebbie guys even went so far as to send me a card congratulating me on my "rebirth"----it had almost 100 signatures on it!!!!!!

Originally Posted by Dave Severson

It's tough, Dave.... but knowing that when the 'maro is all done and sold the money will be going for Ranchero parts, well, I guess that's the thing that keeps me going on it. All of the Ford guys around have established a boycott of my garage til it's gone!!!!! I tell ya what, after being one of the Ford Only guys around here for so many years, I catch a bunch of **** about building a 'maro everyday---even if it is just for resale!!!!! A few months back some of the chebbie guys even went so far as to send me a card congratulating me on my "rebirth"----it had almost 100 signatures on it!!!!!!

I guess I can almost see your point - as long as the 'Maro is a passing fancy to an end (Ranchero). I get a bunch of the same garbage here from the Chebbie guys as to why do I stick with Ford when their brand is so easy to build and get parts. My answer is that life is not a dress rehearsal and since you only pass by here once, it might as well be done the right way.

Another thing to lay on the Chebbie owners - I was at Williams Grove Speedway outside of Mechanicsburg, PA a couple of months ago as a change from my normal local tracks - and the tow vehicles, and I checked how many of each brand were hauling their Chebbie race cars - and without exaggeration it was approximately 80% FORD with the rest split between Chebbie/GMC and Dodges (you know the sales BS - it's a hemi). This is the same kind of percentage I see at any race track I attend, plus people pulling big campers and even as a corporate work truck