The Old Reliable 409 driven by Dave Strickler tuned by Bill Jenkins 1962 Bel Air 

You are very welcome! I really appreciate your dad's knowledge he shares with me on The Old Reliable. I had a great time filming this video and learned a lot!

God bless you

Your dad rocks!!

Thank your Father for sharing, and the continued relationship with the Strickler family. He's a super guy, but you already knew that! 👍

@@davidfrazier2753 He is truly the best! He has the biggest heart and I'm so grateful that I got to grow up around all of these cars and his knowledge.

It was a Sunoco station, Grumpy did work for our C Stock 283 '57 Chevy FI. Miss those days. Real people racing rear automobiles.

You know that thought occurred to me about 10 years ago I saw a big old black car setting out in front of a pole barn I was out doing some tree work near Nashville Illinois I am 13 miles south of there is where I live out of curiosity I said what year is that thing and he said that is a 1963 Chrysler imperial it was black with a light blue interior I said really and what are you doing with it he said I pulled it out of there after about an hour of taking a bunch of stuff off of it but piled up I’ve put one out every year and I need to sell it. Oh yeah I said how much you want for it he said I’d take 1600. I said well let me look it over at Walmart or is that for 13 automatic and it’s got a push button on the dash and look at that steering wheel you don’t see too many like that so I looked it over and it was not round but kind of oval like an egg and I said the word run? Does the motor run? 4 13 huh that’s a pretty big old dude and

I never got to finish that so anyway 1600 it was a big pretty good black paint a lot of chrome you can check one out it had the bucket headlights it was the last year for any American car to have those and I thought about it and he said it runs it was my grandfathers , He bought it brand new in Michigan all the paperwork is in the glove box and when he died it went to his son who was my dad and now I got it and I’m about ready to let it go or I’ll give up the task to somebody else they can push it around or fix it or do whatever. and I said well probably somebody I’ll end up getting it I mean the tires are all up he said one wheel will not turn I said wow that’s no big deal I called him about two nights later and I said I’ll tell you want I wouldn’t mind having that thing I got to thinking that’s the year I was born and I have never had a 1963 car or truck of the same here I’d like to get it just for that he said come up here and get it you bring half that and I said really he said Yep I said 800bucks he said yup I said there will be a guy up there tomorrow to get it with a rollback and that guy works down at the jail right now he sold that towing business but you can go talk to him to this day and he’ll tell you that was the heaviest car that he ever had on that truck and I had a 68 Cadillac on there also that was black I thought it might beat it but he said no he said that Chrysler was heavier anyway wished why so many of us I would have kept it I ended up getting a couple window motors working having the carburetor de gunkd and the whole time I played with it in the evening’s it ran great yeah I went down the road 100 mph pretty nice white walls should’ve never sold it

Thank you very much! I appreciate your comments. It was a blast capturing the videos for this film!

The mark 4 is better ,canted valve engine

What did it run..guessing mid 10's

+allen blackman: Well, yeah...Allen.....but this car never ran the small block chevy motor...ever. It was a 409...which was NOT a smallblock.

Agree

Kinseydsp it's not the best engine chevy ever made. it had a bad problem with throwing rods through the block. the 327 or 350 is the best engine Chevy ever made. you will see more in Street rods, and race tracks than you will a 409. sales are never wrong.

I have over 1000 runs on my bracket 09 without removing a valve cover. How many SBC and BBC have those bragging rights?

The factory look on those 409 engines, are the prettiest engines ever designed

those X frame cars never had leaf springs.

They did still make the 409 early in 65 but 65 Chevy's with the 409 are extremely rare...maybe even more rare than the 61 Impala SS 409(142 ever made). The top 409 option in 65 was a solid lifter 400 horsepower version with a single 4 barrel I believe. They also had what they called the "Smooth Idle" 409 too, which had a hydraulic cam and was rated at 340 horsepower. I think I read somewhere that there are two 1965 Biscayne 409's still known to exist. The 396 replaced the 409 mid year 1965

That 63 Impala had to be a Z-11 lightweight race car if it was a W-Series 427. Unless he had a 63 Impala that someone had swapped a Z-11 engine into. That is an extremely rare engine. They only made it in 62-63 until the GM racing ban. I wonder if the Z-11 engine was also available over the parts counter or only in the 62-63 Impala lightweight race cars

It don't get no better than that folks

Right you are. My neighborhood gas station owner in Chicago, a veteran and gifted mechanic, bought a 62 09 and spent days setting it up. They decided to try it out on Halsted Street, not a good idea at any time. Somewhere between 2nd and 3rd gear it blew so violently the entire hood came off and bounced down the highway. Late at night, not much traffic, no one got hurt. I don't believe they ever rebuilt it.

You don't know what the hell your talking about? Are you nuts? The w block has been a great reliable engine .

The 409 was a good solid motor. It had limits just Ike any other motor. One was it needed to be shifted at 5800 rpm’s. Reving it past 6000 and you were asking for trouble.

This car was built 60 years ago. Where do you think your modern day 4 bangers will be 60 years from now?

Not really.