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Thanks for providing that link...brought back memories...I had a 1967 Mustang 289 and dreamed of having the 390 4bbl instead. My friend's dad was a mechanic and owned a garage...he helped his son "build" the engine and drop it in with a new transmission...it was either a 428 or 429, but not a stock engine. I remember he couldn't close the back of the hood so had it raised up as well as those front pins and clips that got to be popular. I think they eventually did everything known back then to that motor to juice up the HP since he raced it down at the Creeds drag strip.
 
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All dry wall hung and muddledthen sanded. Rough in plumbing done by 11:00 tomorrow. Then wait and see when tile man comes. Bath room cabinets ready by end of next week. This project is coming along on schedule so far. Subs are very polite and clean up after themselves every day. A pleasure so far and no real surprises to date. We are getting excited to see the next phase of this project
 
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Sounds like you have a good contractor.
 
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Trying to help my son with calculus, and I can't solve them using the book and Google. And I've taken calculus before.

Good luck with that. I was talking to a 30 something Ph.d the other day about forgetting my math (taken 34 years ago) and he said don't feel bad, he can't remember it at only 15 years ago...

up early, waiting for cab to take me to get an epidural, they won't let me drive and my normal ride is busy.
Hopefully this will go easily, new doc (to me) doing the injection at C6

much cooler 42 going into low 50's today.

Hope it went well.

The wind gusts we had Sunday blew off many, many tabs of shingles on the front of my home. It said 41 mph gusts, but I know where the weather gage is (about a 1/4 mile from my house) and it is somewhat protected from WNW winds. I believe our gusts were higher due to the lay of the land.

Waiting to see how crummy of an offer the insurance adjuster makes us. If any.
 
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Thanks for providing that link...brought back memories...I had a 1967 Mustang 289 and dreamed of having the 390 4bbl instead. My friend's dad was a mechanic and owned a garage...he helped his son "build" the engine and drop it in with a new transmission...it was either a 428 or 429, but not a stock engine. I remember he couldn't close the back of the hood so had it raised up as well as those front pins and clips that got to be popular. I think they eventually did everything known back then to that motor to juice up the HP since he raced it down at the Creeds drag strip.

Wow, Creeds brings back memories, I use to race my '68 GTX with a Petty Enterprises Hemi, both there and Suffolk. Creeds didn't have much braking area, I watched Tommy Grove's brakes fail and the flames from his blown engine burnt the chute away. He ended up in the cornfield with a destroyed fiberglass Mustang funny car.
 
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IMG_2722.JPGMy broken tree is about all I can find, but the wind is still blowing hard.
 
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'68 had 428 optional, so they will fit sort of, the 390 required loosening the motor mounts and raising it in order to change spark plugs. A good friend had a 67 390 a/c car, nightmare to work on.
But you could actually get the 390 horsepower 427 in Cougar GT-E in 68. They were very limited run and mostly built summer and fall of 1967. Then there were the Shelby cars.
 
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I bought a new '85 Fiero GT with 4 speed, later they used 5 speeds in the GT, the 88 was a great handler, the '89 would have had a turbo Quad Four.

Life is strange. In 1988, I was working in the Quad 4 plant in Lansing, Michigan. When they canceled the Fiero, that pretty much killed the plant, we were scheduled about 50K units per year for the Fiero. We never knew why it was canceled. We had a turbo Quad 4 Fiero at the plant, and I got a chance to drive it, it was awesome!!

That engine was interesting. The blocks came from Germany, the heads from Italy, ( Castings ). The engine was extremely well built, but too expensive for the market that it was in. We put most of them in Grand Ams, but when they started offering the V6 as a $500 upgrade, it shut our plant down. The base was a Iron Duke 4, no upcharge, 500 for the v6, and $1100 for the Q4.
It was one of 4 engine programs I worked on that were canceled. I think GM in those days was going in too many directions at once.
 
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I read somewhere a few years back that the Corvette team had objections, but the market was hit hard when it was classed as sports car by insurance instead of commuter economy as it was originally. They should have put the 67 Olds 425 in it from Toronado....
 
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