1972 Galaxie with 429 – EricTheCarGuy
Well this was my car for many years. My first car was a 1972 Galaxie with a 351 Windsor, I loved that car. I used to cruse back country roads at speeds beyond safe listening to Led Zeppelin on the tape player, good times. About 10 years ago I picked this car up in trade, it had a blown engine. I just happened to have a 429 I bought off of someone 3 years before that had been sitting in my garage waiting for a new home. About 2K in parts went into the engine and away I went. You would think it would have just dropped in but no, I had to re engineer the engine mounts to accommodate the new engine with some other modifications. All worth it. I loved driving this car. I took the back seat out, put a mountain bike in the back and drove from Cinci to Pittsburgh one summer to visit friends. I loved the way it sounded in the tunnels.
Yes, it is me playing my 12 string.
I sold it last winter to a guy that I liked, I hope it is serving him well. Perhaps one day I will get another and start having fun all over again.
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What kind of 12 string guitar do you have?
Nice sound, even though that means an energy source wasting.
Problem is, this was built when gas was 28 cents a gallon and all full-size American cars were like this…huge, luxurious, and woefully inefficient. They have become playtoys for the wealthy; most middle-class Americans couldn't afford the gas bills. Too bad; it's a hardtop, a body style originating here in America, that our companies dumped, and it was taken over by German cars.
My first car was a 71 LTD with a 400 in it.. It was my Grandpas car and I got it in 1979 when I was 16 years old! It was a 2 door, so it was pretty cool and had a ton of power, but I knew they put 429's in them too… That would have been fun!
Thanks for the vids as I've just found you and am wasting way too much watching you!
Mitch
That thing is so cool! Looks like something you would run moonshine in!
I've got a '72 Mercury Marquis – D2VE's are the worst cylinder heads on the planet. Absolute dogs.
Yea!! That has some heat to it!!
Bloody shame, Mr. Eric… Bloody shame.
i cried like a bitch.
Dude! wheres yur hair!!?? xD 😛 nice care, think you still miss it
loved how u smiled when u hit the gas.that's why we do what we do
GREAT car man!.. I had a 73 Ford LTD 2 door brougham with the same 429 4V engine..To this day I wish I had never sold it.. My dad sold it to me for $300 and me being a late teen at the time drove it to death never thinking about keeping it for longevity..Needless to say I went through a lot of rear tires. I'm sad its gone.. I miss her and wish I had never sold it.
Hey eric guess what I bought a 72 ford galaxie 500 I love it too.
I still have my first car, interestingly it's also the very first I ever drove in my life, an 87" Benz 300SDL turbo. I got it after the previous owner fucked it up, and couldn't afford to fix it, and she gave it to me since she liked me. I can't bring myself to get rid of it even though it's been 3 years and I still haven't fixed it 🙁 Fuck I miss driving it…
@mazzelshop Yea I do.
@backwoodsctryboy It does make a nice noise, thanks for the comment.
nothin sound better than a ol square bore eddy or carter
@ad356 Supply and demand, there were a lot more 350's out there so that makes them cheeper. Also it's the materials or any special casting that may need to be done to produce the starter. Car parts are commodities and it's practical to look at them that way.
@EricTheCarGuy of course, everyone is entitled to an opinion. my opinion is based upon ownership and repairing the vehicles that i owned. i must say i was rather pissed off when the starter for my wife's 1998 cavalier cost me nearly 200 bucks, and thats for a little 2.2. i bought a starter for my 350 v8 (a much larger engine with more rotating mass) and it cost less than 1/2 that, the starter for my 91 cavalier was about the same price. why is the starter for that newer vehicle so much more?