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Old 12-13-2012, 08:49 PM
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Truck is owned by Bill Naudain of Clayton Delaware.

Has owned it since purchasing it from Jack Whitby ford in October of 1963. Took the truck in stead of the new Thunderbolt he had on order.

I was at its unveiling and helped with some restoration work on it along with some other slick 60s members before i moved to Arizona.

Bill now has the truck i believe up and running with a 427 FE. He told me he blew up too may wedges and purchased a 427 SOHC and stuffed it in there along with a B&M automatic. The hammer marks are still in the firewall from where he beat it back to clearance the head. There are even dents in the underside of the hood from too many RPM parts displacement.

I went to Bills place to help with some inventory and was amazed at the NOS cammer parts and other ford goodies. I picked up a NOS set of bare casting tunnel port heads and asked Bill if he knew he had them.. "Hell no i forgot about those". His place was pretty interesting.

Bill is one of those guys you need to meet once in your lifetime.

Legendary ford magazine did an article on the truck and Bill in April of 2006.

Garbz