[Greg Reimer 7376]

One of the things I did in my late teens/early 20's was find,buy, and sell cars. I worked in a rather busy gas station during junior college, and a steady stream of cars came our ways, in fact, my brother bought a one owner 69 Plymouth Roadrunner,383 4 speed for about a thousand or$1200 back in 1974 or so. During the first arab oil embargo, muscle cars were very cheap. One thing I bought, because I liked 56,57 and 58 Fords, was when a customer came in with a straight, decent running driver condition 58 Edsel convertible. I asked him what he was going to do with it, he answered" Nothing.Wanna buy it?' $400 later, the Edsel was mine with a few other cars. My buddies all said"We knew you were crazy, this just proved it." I had it a few years, then sold it to a collector who came in and bought gas for his 73 Mustang convertible. That was the last Mustang convert for a long time,that's why he bought it. It seems that the term FE to describe the 332-352-390 engine famiky stood for Ford-Edsel.The 58 edsels had a 361 inch version of that engine with 10.5 to 1 compression, a vacuum secondary 600 Holley, and quite a bit of torque. I'm sure a lot of those engines had their valve covers switched and wound up in Ford 2 door sedans. If you remember one that seemed to be a little faster than everybody else's 352, that might have been the reason. My flirtation with collector cars was short lived-drag racing was so much more fun.