History HAPPY 4-09

Happy 4-09 to all the W heads out there.

 

I worked at a store gathering up the shopping carts out in the parking lot in high school.
every week a lady would come in with her 4-speed 409 powered 1962 Impala SS. gold with a tan or maybe kind of yellow interior.
just another 15 year old used car. wonder what ever happened to it?

 

Cool stuff all.
I always wonder why we cal em W engines look more like an M to me.
Dan

 

Yes I may have a problem. And not a 348 in sight.

 

My neighborhood barber had a '64 Impala 409 Super Sport with a 4-speed when I was in college. He kept it immaculate. I was a diehard MoPar fan but so respected that Chevy. It was a jewel.

 

James, that's not a problem but a blessing. You're sitting in high clover.

 

Got 348s and will have a 409 soon, going in 3 weeks to pickup a 340hp motor, but have now stock piled all the good stuff for a 425hp motor to build out of it. Gonna be shoving that in out 61 Impala.

 

Nice. 61 Impala is one of my favorite.

 

If anyone is interested, I have an NOS Crane solid flat tappet cam I would sell or trade for a SBC cam or? It pretty large. I do have the specs at home. Gene.

 

while it only exists in my brain my avatar has a 409 under the hood.

 

Riddle me this....................why does March only have thirty one days in it instead of 48.

 

Kinda got a soft spot for those “W” engines . There was never a 409 around our neighborhood, but there were several 348s and one 348 that claimed to be a 409! And, James, this is kinda hard for me to say…..being a Ford guy and all!





Bones

 

Bones I know you didn't like watching me beat up on the red Galaxy at Mo Kan.

 

I would be interested in what the spec are.

 

One day I'll have a 348 or 409 in a rod. Likely a 348 but I'd be tickled either way. Growing up there was a one owner black on black 409/4 speed 64 Impala a block from my house. And it was intact at least until 2001. Husband of the widow that owned it worked for gm for like 40-50 years and got it on a deep employee discount. As she was an elderly black woman in the 90s she was afraid of white people so I didn't get much information out of her or get to look at it close much but was still a cool car. I believe it's actually still there though I think it was bulldozed with her shack during the beginning of the real estate boom here a few years ago. I've seen traces of mangled chrome and black painted steel poking out of the brush pile where it was parked approximately 25-30 years

 

My on-going project with a 348...

 

I'm sure we could hook you up with a 348 starter package.

 

our old 34 coupe with a 6x2 348.

 

Then the current 348 in our 61, soon to be a 409...



Then the car that started the obsession with W's, the 61 Impala my grandfather ordered brand new in 61. 348/350hp 4 speed car.

 

Be awhile before I could afford it. Even at a friend's/family/forum discount lol. Got a lot of irons in the fire ATM and not many tongs to grab them with lol

 

Well, I had mixed emotions about that, me being a Ford man but you being my friend….it was all good! Let the best man ( car) win!
That was a great outing, was it not? Sorry, I only got staging pictures! At the green light, I watched the race!

Hope to see you again , soon!



Bones