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Originally Posted by GregWeld
You're a bonafide Fordaphile......
Sweet by the way!
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What can I say. For a brief period of time (thank god) I think I owned more Fords than Rob. At one period I had two late model Mustangs, the fastback and a bitchin' aluminum monocoque GT40 kit. Technically that might make four cars, but remember, we are talking about Fords here, and things that I own, which means only two of them had wheels and only one actually drove.
Funny story about the GT40 though. My dad decided to retire last year and one of the things he wanted to do was pick up a car that he could work on. I happened to have a big old Ford engine lying around that was a little bit of an impulse by. It was an all aluminum supercharged 5.4L from a 2011 GT500 that was wrecked with 54 miles on it. Couple that with the fact that those engines make 700plus with just bolt ons, and it seemed like a wonderful purchase. I wanted to put it in the little Mustang and have a ridiculously powered cruiser/daily driver, but the damn thing was taller than the length of the bottom of the rocker to the top of the hood. At that point I told him he should take the engine off my hands and drop it in a GT40 replica since wanted a project and had liked GT40s since watching/reading about them at Le Mans. I handled all the paperwork to get him the kit, and somehow ended up footing the bill on it at the same time. He has been paying me back in Mustang parts ever since.