That’s funny. My first thought when I saw the title of the thread was the 351 Windsor. I took my driver’s test in my dad’s 77 Thunderbird with a 351W. Beast of a car with a front end longer than most Euroweeny cars. Two people could lay on top of that hood with a blanket and “watch” the stars. It could run with a lot of my friend’s sports cars but had an interior you could live in.
Dad also had an Econoline van with the Windsor engine. That van was driven from Okc to Miami, San Francisco, Vegas, Colorado. It had over 250K miles before he finally sold it when my mom died. Those were great cars that were pretty easy to work on as well.
Yeah, those were the big ‘Birds. There’s a couple of them running around here, and a black one that reminds me of the old LTD II. Another I like but don’t see is the ‘68-69 with the hidden headlights and suicide doors. I remember them from the dealership floor, they were lenient to us budding 12-year old car guys who couldn’t get enough, back in the late 60’s...