Email (jerryheasley@gmail.com) if you have a barn find or know of one. Or call me at 806-236-3681. We will feature you in the video and buy the car or pay a finder's fee if you don't own the car and just know where it is, etc.
I bought one from Bob Estes Lincon Mercury in Ingelwood .CA. around 1970. It was on the used cars lot. The story that I got from the the sales staff was it was ordered by the the dealership oner and he didn't want it any more. It was a 427 with a C6 auto and a 3.50 open dif ( go figure ) . I put headders and a 750 double pumper on it. It was the dark red or marrune with black interior. Can't remember if it was a XR7 or not. No body knew what what 7 liter ment back then and everybody thought it was a 390. Beat MANY Gto's 442's and 396's, They couldn't believe a 390 could run that well! HA HA!!!
I rode in that car in 1969! Turner had cut out for the ram air and had also replaced the distributor. If I remember he worked at Philco-Ford back in the day? I heard the story about the demise of the original 427. He also ran the car at Fremont Raceway (14.27@102) on borrowed Polyglass tires. I loved that car.
Tell me about it. My first car was a 68 Cougar XR-7, it had leather and power everything, ac to, dark blue with black vinyl top, 351 4v , I traded it for a K code 65 Fairlane 2dr hardtop.
And they paid right for it. At least they did not rip the couple off! Thank you sir . I have over 30 cars in my collection and this is what I see in my future!
He just said he had a NASCAR Crank that means it had the special rods with wide bearings . Price less and very rare today because they don't exist anymore .Those parts came with the 7000 rpm kit back in the day .
Just doesn't get much better than this,really tugs at the heart strings!!! In 74 a used car lot, can't remember was in Indy or Greenwood, IN, had a 68 Shelby GT500 KR.L ime green, white stripes & black interior. 428 dual 4's c6. Salesman said a dentist owned it,asking $2500!!!!! If we could go back in time!!!
I was lucky enough to sit in a brand new in the show room 1968 Cougar GTE 427 7.0L car in Spencerport NY at Hart Taylor Mercury dealer in April of 1968. It was red with black vinyl top with moon roof. It had a C6 auto tranny. I wonder where that car is now?
I live about 60 miles from there now. When did they start stamping VIN numbers on heads? I worked at Paul Swanson Ford Los Gatos in the 1980s and was told only way to ID was a date code behind the starter?
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Huh. I live close to their old address. That house was maybe $45k in 1968. Now it's $1.8M. The cars neato and all, but I'm guessing they probably wish they held onto the house...
While the short block may be "original", the pistons are aftermarket replacements, as the factory '68 427s used the same "bumper top" pistons as the '63-'64 Low Riser engines. Same with the Intake valves and their "bumper" centers. That intake manifold was the same aluminium one from the 428 Police Interceptor ... equipped with a version of the 600 cfm Holley carb of the 390 GT. I should know, as I had one in 'Acapulco Blue'. 🙂
Holy cow, entering their former address, according to ZiIIow, their old house is worth $2.1 million dollars today. They obviously had good taste in cars and houses.
Odd, why are there suddenly all these "barns" cropping up all over 'Murica....everything that's in a garage, storage facility, etc is suddenly a "barn find"....I guess folk apparently don't realize that "Murica transitioned from an agricultural society to a city-based society long ago.
What is that car worth today, as it sits? I know it's gonna be a small fortune because it's all original. But it's also gonna take a small fortune to restore it. And nobody JUST restores them. When finished they make the factory assembly look third rate. If memory serves the 427 was exceedingly rare in those cars. The 428s much more common. If I won the lottery............................
Is that the 427 Nascar side oiler with the steel crank and cross bolt Mains with medium riser heads??? If it is that is big big money!!! We ran one in our short track Fairlane and Mustang except we had tunnel port heads and a set of high riser heads
Dave Brittain the first part he said that he paid 60 000 for the car and the original motor. He also said that if the car was completely restored it would be worth north of 150.0000
I've had many cars over the year, but the only one I really cared about was my 1967 cougar RX7. with a 289 4 barrel. What a car!! If I had the $ i'd buy one today. I kindda know how them people felt, letting that car go.
@@dan1on Well, considering an "RX7" is a "rotor motor" Mazda ... 😉 BTW, my '68 Cougar 7.0 Litre GT-E was an XR7 version ... but, fortunately, it wasn't Vinyl Roof-equipped.
@@dan1on I hated that round lump of a crash pad the '67 steering wheels were saddled with. The '68 had the rim-to-rim flat crash pad: looked like it belonged ... rather than like an "afterthought". 😐 I miss each and every one of my Ford-Mercury performance vehicles. From my '64 289 HP Fairlane 500 XL all the way to my '70 Boss 429 ... with my '65 B/FX Comet Cyclone sandwiched in the middle. In the non-performance stable was a '65 Comet 202 2 Door Sedan w/ 200 I-6, a '65 Comet 404 Wagon ... also 200-equipped w/C4 ... and a '65 Mercury Commuter Wagon: my long-time tow car ... though I did upgrade it with a 428 4V & C6, '68 disc brakes w/'68 Police Interceptor brake booster, free-flowing exhaust utilizing new OTC '65 427 manifolds (rare then: even more rare today!), MSD ignition ... Yea, I just couldn't leave 'em untouched. 🙂
how old is the guy in the picture, original owner. i love the old ford engines, did plenty of work on them in my younger years, that head is heavy, i had a crushed right forearm with a metal plate in it in 1969 and was rebuilding on in my den, winter time, i got the intake off just fine but when i pulled one head off i broke the plate in half, lesson well learned. most of mine were just 390ci with performance work done, i had one 1963 med riser 427 and one 1969 428 cobra jet. great engines, i did not know they put hydraulic lifters in any of the 427's.
@@terrydunn5784 No, it wasn't a 410 Hp engine. It was rated at 390. It's also not a medium riser. It's a low riser configuration. It is a lack-luster hydraulic cam similar to a 390GT. Still a great base to work from.
@@mustardstain504d6 While the cylinder heads were unique '68 versions of the '63-'64 Low Riser, the intake manifold was a version of the aluminium 427 Medium Riser/428 Police Interceptor intake.
@@johnjohnsn7633 An interceptor intake does not have MR runner sizes. They are taller. I know all about them. I have been working with them and rare early Datsun cars for 40 years, not to mention radial engines.
no..the cammer...427 SOHC had a cam in each head...I think the chain drive on them was nearly 6 feet long. believe the block was FE based..also bore and stroke were equivalent to the 427 side oiler, but different engines.
@@af-lt5he the SOHC never came in any production car. They were sold over the counter. They are of a single over head cam design and the original drive chain was seven feet long. Many converted them to gear drive.
