100e ENGINE FITTED?? - Project Classic Ford
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- čas přidán 3. 02. 2023
- Work continues on the 100e.
Ran out of enthusiasm today so just a lil update video and whats going on at the moment.
Its coming together just very slowly, still on target for april burnouts though 😉
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My first car was a 1957 100e that my father had sold a set of new Gulf tires to the owner. He returned two weeks later asking if we would give him his $100 back (that was what a set of 2 ply 13” tubeless tires cost back in 1964 and that included mounting and balancing). Well my father told him that he could not do that because he could not resale the tires as new to recupe his money, not to mention the labor of taking them off again. So the guy said that he would take a hundred dollars for the car because the r were engine was needing a rebuild. I was turning 16 in a few months so my dad agreed and told me to park it on the back corner behind the tire changing area and that I could only work on it when I was coughed up on my school work and my shift at the station.
Our neighbors owned an auto parts and machine shop. So it only took me about a couple of hours to take the motor out and call them to pick it up. Luckily all of the bolts were SAE so that there were no special English tools required. But what was required was patience, it took our 3 months for the machine shop to get the rebuild kit and then a month to work it into the schedule. As you can imagine I was anxious to get it back, so I spent the time modifying it. Let me say that even though I had never seen this car before, the flathead engine was nothing new to me and my father. Our service truck, which was totally restored from the frame up, was a 1948 Ford F 150 with a flathead V 8.
Well the little e100 was s powder blue paint that was faded and dull and worn through in place on top of the finders, so my first modification was to paint it. I choose Corvette Candy Apple Red Metal Flake, but in those days it was an enamel paint, and I had to water sand the dead paint off multiple times, paint it with a primer and when cured from sitting in the Florida sun, water sand it multiple times. Then came the time to spray the finished enamel. Luckily there was a retired man who knew how to paint and he gave me instructions and encouragement. It actually came out pretty good with on on or two runs that were not obvious until you looked closer.
While I waited for the engine, I took the front bumper off and tossed it, jacked up the front suspension a little, put a set of the largest 13” tires on the rear, and on the inside I put a pair of fighter jet seatbelts that I bought at the surplus store, replaced the shifter knob with a brass small piston from a chainsaw, put a tube type radio in the glovebox sitting on a sling for shock absorption, wedged the speaker between the shifter and the firewall, and finally I could not afford a tachometer, but I took a pressure gage off of an old radiator cap tester that was being replaced and I drilled a hole in the water pump and tapped it and ran a 3/16” copper tube through the firewall and up through the dashboard and mounted the gage there on the right side of the speedometer. So when the engine revved, the gage went to higher pressure until it reached the “Redline”. It was hilarious as it made a clicking noise as it wound up and down. But it was a different time and this was a step above the Soap Box Derby and luckily I lived in a small town and had minimal encounters with heavy traffic and large trucks. Although the little 26 hp engine would scoot the car along at over 70 mph on a flat mile or more stretch of road.
My parents must have realized the danger that this small car entailed, because they made me sell it and get a baby blue 1955 Chevy BelAire with a Blue Line 6 cylinder engine just before I graduated and went to college. I assume that my car might have been brought here by a military person who ordered it with left hand drive? I never knew of a Ford dealer who sold them.
Well that is my story about my English Ford. The only other one that I saw was in a car magazine and it had been made into a dragster and had to be driven from the back seat….
this will be mad when its done
Lots to do mate but I know you’ll get there, thanks for taking us along with you too. Can’t be easy to put the videos out as well as cracking on.
Oh and by the way, make sure you cover that plate up #whatacockwomble 😂
😂 yeah i thought the same, thanks for watching dude ❤
Totally off topic but will be considering putting in original tail lights?
It appears to have had these molded to the bodywork so without cutting off again i will probably be leaving it as is for now
you need to practice your welding skills 😅😂😢
Don't show your Reg No , unless you want a letter from DVLA telling you to go to VOSA !
Never had a problem on any of my cars, i built a rover metro and put a 277hp 1.8 turbo engine in it, but thank you for the concern
When somebody builds a fast old car but doesn’t bother much with the bodywork, isn’t it called a “sleeper” ?