Thread: for all the oldschoolers

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Thanks for the memories. I think that sort of thing still exists at least after Friday night football games (H.S.), but the conditions that are different were caused then by the number of thirty's cars that were kept running for transportation during WWII and then suddenly made available when new cars became available again in 1946. Now there is just a steady economic trickle-down of older cars to H.S. students for first cars. I am replying mainly because my family had a '55 station wagon for a number of years and I helped my Dad replace a Y-block which I think was a 272. The funny thing is that he forgot to tag the ignition wires and even though we put long-to-long and short-to-short plug wires it took a long time to get the plug wires right! That was a major lesson in tagging wires before removal. I guess a 292 or 312 Y-block would swap in and the exhaust manifolds were convenient on top for the 272. What are you running under the hood?

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder