Turned on the telly when I got home from work Friday night in the middle of an old B/W movie. A guy is working on a boat engine that appears to be an Interceptor. Sure enough it is a Y-Block. When he gets it running and gets back to shore he is driving a 57 Ford Sunliner. Even the bad guys in the movie drive 57 Fords. The ambulance is a 51 or 52 F-1 panel.

Turns out to be a Mike Hammer movie, "My Gun is Fast". Not a great movie but the all Y-Blocks made up for the plot.

http://ford-y-block.com 

20 miles east of San Diego, 20 miles north of Mexico

Cool!  I wonder if it's wone you can streem for free online.

   God Bless.   Tim                           http://yblockguy.com/

350ci Y-Block FED "Elwood", 301ci Y-Block Unibody LSR "Jake", 312ci Y-Block '58 F-100, 338ci Y-Block powered Model A Tudor

tim@yblockguy.com  Visalia, California    Just west of the Sequoias

Not this one... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKy5GKOtXU4

Nice song, though...

 Seppo from Järvenpää, Finland
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you get about a 2 second look at the y in the 50 or 51 robert mitchums driving in thunder road.most who saw that movie thought it was a flathead.

John, is this the movie?  http://cgi.ebay.com/My-Gun-Quick-1957-Robert-Bray-Whitney-Blake-DVD-/300554881589?pt=US_DVD_HD_DVD_Blu_ray&hash=item45fa778a35

If so maybe I could buy it and watch it, and send it to someone else for the postage, then they can pass it on too, etc, making a chain movie. 

Mike, located in the Siskiyou mountains, Southern, OR 292 powered 1946 Ford 1/2 ton, '62 Mercury Meteor, '55 Country Squire (parting out), '64 Falcon, '54 Ford 600 tractor.

My, that is it. I almost had the title correct.

I hate the sound in Thunder Road. In one scene Mitchum takes of in a 57 Ford and it sounds like a 6 cylinder with no muffler

http://ford-y-block.com 

20 miles east of San Diego, 20 miles north of Mexico

[quote][b]John Mummert (5/7/2011)

Turns out to be a Mike Hammer movie



As a side note, when novelist/philosopher Ayn Rand was asked who was her favorite author, she named Mickey Spillane (described him as a "romanticist"). I discovered his Mike Hammer novels in the late 50s, and once I started one, could never put it down. Don't remember for sure, but I think Mike always drove a Ford (and carried 45 auto).

6 VOLTS/POS. GRD. NW INDIANA

I ordered the movie and will post when it is available to be passed on.  It is coming by slow media mail.

Mike, located in the Siskiyou mountains, Southern, OR 292 powered 1946 Ford 1/2 ton, '62 Mercury Meteor, '55 Country Squire (parting out), '64 Falcon, '54 Ford 600 tractor.

I have been reading the FULL THROTTLE book of the life and fast times of Curtis Turner, worked on it all day today while flying from Maine to Texarkana, Quite interesting.

55 Vicky & customline

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59 & 61 P 400's, 58 F100 custom cab, 69 F100, 79 F150, 82 F600 ramp truck, 90 mustang conv 7 up, 94 Mustang, Should I continue?

The "My Gun is Quick" movie is ready to be sent on.  Give me your address and I'll forward via First Class mail.  Postage is only $1.50 so not worth worrying about. 

Mike, located in the Siskiyou mountains, Southern, OR 292 powered 1946 Ford 1/2 ton, '62 Mercury Meteor, '55 Country Squire (parting out), '64 Falcon, '54 Ford 600 tractor.