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FishOnOne wrote:Lessmore wrote:FishOnOne wrote:
I grew up in a GM family. My mother worked at a GM dealer that later adopted Chrysler products for ~40 years. A Ford product has never made it into my parents garage all these years.
Funny because I currently have 2 Ford vehicles in my garage now.
So FishOnOne...where do you think you went wrong ? :D
I suppose that early model Chevy Citation my dad bought my mother left a bad impression. JK...
Really I got introduced to the Ford diesel trucks from my wifes family and realized they were some really tough trucks. And they were always being worked hard with minimum maintenance.
Back in the '70's I worked as a truck driver. Most of the trucks were Fords. The engines were all gassers. I recall many of the Ford engines back then...very favourably.....such as the big block 460 V8 and 300 cube inline six. These two truck engines were torquey and very reliable. I was and still am a big fan of the Ford 385 series (460) and 300 straight six.
I also liked the 370 V8 I drove in an F 600.
The only Ford engine I had trouble with, was a 302 cube V8. In the 302's case, I think it was more of a case of an individual lemon, as this one engine had more problems than all the other Ford truck engines put together.
So all in all...the Ford trucks I've driven were very reliable, could take heavy commercial work (max and some overloads were not uncommon) and do all this reliably.
Les
