grandpas4dr56 (10/23/2012)
I was born durring Reagan's second term so i got the way before my time on the y blocks but as mentioned before if you know how to work on an engine and read you can work on a y block.My son never knew Y-blocks, in fact he's a Chevy kid but he loves my old Y-block Ford & someday it will be his & I'll assure you it will never have anything but a Y-block in it. He has a pro street '56 Chevy & we park side by side at Turkey Run every year & at the local Sonic every month. The kids come to check his out & the old folks saunter up to my old fifty six & relate how they or some family member had one just like it, then I laugh as they commence to tell me all the differences in theirs & mine. Yep, it is unique to have a Y-block, mines a 272 & I wish it was a 292 or 312 but it's not but I still love it. I have a 351 but it's not going in there, now or ever.
Doing Fords for 45 years. '56 Customline Victoria
E.J. in Havana FL