Inline 6 more rare than V8 in a Shoebox?

[mercman from oz]

Illustration of the 1950 Ford Chassis with the Six

[mercman from oz]

Illustration of the 1950 Ford Chassis with the V8

[flatford8]

Originally Posted by cas3

About 75 or so, I got the old ford 6 with a stuck motor. Like any dumb kid, we pulled the head off and beat it to death with a wood block until it finally gave in and turned over.

Well, it ran, but my goodness I've never seen another car smoke so much to this day.
After you pulled out of the driveway, within a few hundred feet the smoke coming thru the rusty floor was so bad you had to have your head out the window to see and breath.

No extra money in those days, so the Ford got parked.

A few years later, a guy I worked with lived on a fairly busy road, and he looks out one day to see a new short block strapped to a pallet laying in the road. He hooks on to it with his riding lawn mower and drags it home.

Next, knowing I was sorta a gear head, he invites me over to try and identify it.

By golly thats the motor for my old Ford!!! I think I gave him 50, or 100 bucks I forget, but the old Ford lived happily ever after.

I just knew this story would have a happy ending!…….Mark

[cas3]

Yes Mark, happy story. I sold the car in about 90 or so, but I would still see it around occasionally in Minnesota

[mfirth]

My 1st car was a 50 with the 6 and o/d trans. Used oil bad, so saved up & had it rebuilt.
Mild bore & deck job. Long story short; it would beat most V8s till about 50 mph & bury the peg in 3rd gear o/d. GR8 engines !!!!