My first car at 16 was a 1957 Pontiac. You could destroy almost anything with that front bumper.

I was riding with a friend who had a 1938 Chevy coupe with a built 327. We were racing another car in an industrial area of LA. He power shifted into 3rd and part of the flywheel came thru the floor and out the roof just in front of me. Talk about an adrenaline rush!

Some more info to follow BobE post. My neighbor is a mechanic specialized in electrical. My wife's Grand Cherokee posted some codes so I had him take a look. He fixed the problem and when I asked what happened he said well on January 7th she was going 45 headed north it was 85 degrees and one of the sensors failed. Welcome to the digital age

Some time late 2000 or early 2001. I was looking at the Ford Falcon Network and saw a post about Mustang Steve and joined up. Just watched every day for a long time before I posted anything.

I was just reading an article in Mustang Specs about the 1970 Shelby. Shelby no longer had an association with Ford for 1970. The article says that all the 1970 Shelby was left over 1969 cars that hadn't sold in 69. They supposedly even reissued vin numbers to make them 1970. Listed the engines as 351 Windsor.

For me it depends what you plan to use the truck for, I sold my 2018 F150 coyote back to a Ford dealer for close to what I paid. I then bought a 1994 F250 460 with 137,000 miles for $7500. It was garaged all the time and has original paint in great condition. I have three trailers horse, dump and car. I moved recently 50 miles and used all three for the move. Empty the truck gets 14 mpg, the heaviest trailer loaded up to 10,000 gets 10 mpg. My move without the truck would have been a lot more expensive even with the higher price of gas. I only use the truck occasionally not as a daily driver.  

I have the same situation as Bullet Bob. I had an older brother who worked for a lot of the older car builders in southern California. I visited him at  Boyd Coddington, George Barris, Kugel's shop Chip Foose. He started out at 16 sweeping out Big Daddy Ed Roth's shop. None of them would know me other than Willie Browns little brother.


 

Being 75 with bad back and vertigo problems, I took my 66 Ranchero to a local mechanic I trust to replace the heater core. It didn't have hoses. New core, hoses and labor came to 199.50. Small price to pay for wear and tear on the old body.

My 2018 F150 with the V8 had the start stop feature drove me crazy. Thankfully the 2021 Mustang GT doesn't.

I ordered a 21 Mustang a couple of months ago. It came in two weeks ago so to break it in I drove it from my house in southern Oregon to my brothers house in Northern Washington. With the specs for the 331 it seems the Coyote motor has similar numbers at 460 hp and 420 ft lbs. It has 12/1 cr.  The sticker says 24 hwy 17 town fuel milage. I was pleased when I ended with 28.1 with tail wind going north and 27.1 coming home with a head wind.

1966 Ranchero 6 cyl had a hand choke.

I had my 1993 Dodge diesel serviced at the local quick lube (they do car repairs also). I drove about 3 miles from the place and the truck started vibrating bad, pulled over and called the lube shop. The owner who I have know for three years came to check the truck. He wanted to make sure they didn't forget to put oil in the rearend. It was full so he had it towed back to the shop. He called later and said upon in inspection the rear end had a problem. It was Friday afternoon so he said call him Monday. I called on Monday he said come pick up the truck. This truck had 126,000 miles on it with a lot of heavy towing. The rear end had seized up and he came in on Sunday and rebuilt it himself. When I asked about paying he said there is no charge. Now knowing how hard I used the truck I said Sam the truck is almost thirty years old and worked hard changing the oil didn't cause it to break down. At least let me pay for the parts. He said absolutely not it broke leaving my shop my responsibility. Needless to say any work my vehicles need that I can't do goes to his place.