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Simply absolutely positively gorgeous mk!!
You owned a copy of one of those MONSTERS!!??
Good grief, the very epicenter of Ford's glory days produced that mean machine. ;^)

Hey, Dem Guard!
Surely you remember "Myron". The old man who worked late in the grain mill at Reinders' Bros sacking birdseed? He lived across the street from the grain mill and his boy (much older than us) HAD a Galaxy 427 twin can car. Black, I can still see it parked in Myron's driveway. Remember?

Guys FYI DG & I used to work at a grain mill in HS. Hustling rock salt, unloading rail cars full of seed etc.
"Myron" was an ancient old goat who'd worked for the Reinders' family forrrrrrever.
We used to see him pull out a flask of whiskey, take a swig when he thought no one was looking? Well we was looking since we was hiding, having a smoke on the clock!! LOL

Say mk, the *lore* back in the day was cammer 427 was prone to snapping one or the other cams. To your knowledge was there ever any truth to that?

Dem Guard can tell you about the kid who lived across the street from me. We called 'em "Boneass", if you saw this string bean you'd see why the name.

Anyway this goofball was a died-in-the-wool Ford guy, bought a '63 Ford Galaxy from an even odder kid by the name of Osmond.

Only Boneass' car had a 390, not the cammer and really not enough HP to move all that Detroit iron. Certainly not in the same league as the uber lightweight Dart 340, any way.

Nonetheless he'd earned every penny he'd paid for that car, it was his first ride, had a sterling new deep blue paint job. He was sooooo proud.

One night Boneass, who loved his beer, was CHASING some imbecile throughout the entire neighborhood. A rat race! Lots of hills, streets barely 1.5 lanes wide and because ol' Boneass was probably stewd, he loses control of his beloved Galaxy 500 390. ! LOL

These days one pulled a stunt like that, drunk or not & it's go to jail, diectly to jail yayada. But not then, not in those days. Can't recall exactly WTH did happen to ol' Boneass, but, that broken car sat across the street for a longest time, front end slightly elevated. LOL

An addendum to Boneass.
Was idling away some time one day, googling names of people from the past, Dod Ol' Boness' name & it pops up on a legal recording. He was charged, and convicted on his 3rd DUI.

Now we couldn't see THAT coming all those years ago, eh? LOL!!

Simply absolutely positively gorgeous mk!! You owned a copy of one of those MONSTERS!!?? Good grief, the very epicenter of Ford's glory days produced that mean machine. ;^)

Nooo, I regret to say that I never owned a 427 cammer, I DID own a 427 Side Oiler that resided between the fenders of my '63 Galaxie, the ironic thing is that I could have bought a cammer from a mechanic in Kensington Maryland that needed cash in a hurry and was willing to let it go for a mere $1000 and of course I was about 950 bucks short dammit, lol

Hey, Dem Guard! Surely you remember "Myron". The old man who worked late in the grain mill at Reinders' Bros sacking birdseed? He lived across the street from the grain mill and his boy (much older than us) HAD a Galaxy 427 twin can car. Black, I can still see it parked in Myron's driveway. Remember?

Guys FYI DG & I used to work at a grain mill in HS. Hustling rock salt, unloading rail cars full of seed etc. "Myron" was an ancient old goat who'd worked for the Reinders' family forrrrrrever.

We used to see him pull out a flask of whiskey, take a swig when he thought no one was looking? Well we was looking since we was hiding, having a smoke on the clock!! LOL

But you never ratted him out did ya? ;)

Say mk, the *lore* back in the day was cammer 427 was prone to snapping one or the other cams. To your knowledge was there ever any truth to that?

To the best of my knowledge, that was just a bad rumor with no basis to it HOWEVER, because the 427 Cammer engine was based on the standard 427 block design, it required a dummy shaft and cam gear to ride in the standard position where a camshaft would ordinarily reside in the block, I heard (don't know for sure) that those dummy shafts had some issues once you got up over 6000 rpm. (the 427 SOHC was conservatively rated at 616 horsepower at 7000 rpm with the dual 4-bbl Holley configuration). The Cammer was originally intended to challenge Chrysler's Hemi in NASCAR (it was said that Chrysler intended to introduce the Hemi into NASCAR competition, and the Cammer (being a true Hemi design as well) was the equivalent of the Soviet 'Doomsday Machine', i.e., "if you race your Hemi, we'll unleash this even more awesome and destructive SOHC Hemi", lol

Dem Guard can tell you about the kid who lived across the street from me. We called 'em "Boneass", if you saw this string bean you'd see why the name.

Anyway this goofball was a died-in-the-wool Ford guy, bought a '63 Ford Galaxy from an even odder kid by the name of Osmond.

Only Boneass' car had a 390, not the cammer and really not enough HP to move all that Detroit iron. Certainly not in the same league as the uber lightweight Dart 340, any way.

That's odd, the 390 traditionally had plenty of oats to move those big Fords around, I've had a few of them and except for the bore diameter, they're very similar to the 427. (427 = 4.23 bore x 3.78 stroke, 390 = 4.05 bore x 3.78 stroke, the difference, yea the BIG difference was in the heads and breathing)

Nonetheless he'd earned every penny he'd paid for that car, it was his first ride, had a sterling new deep blue paint job. He was sooooo proud.

Uh oh, I can almost see where this is going...

One night Boneass, who loved his beer, was CHASING some imbecile throughout the entire neighborhood. A rat race! Lots of hills, streets barely 1.5 lanes wide and because ol' Boneass was probably stewd, he loses control of his beloved Galaxy 500 390. ! LOL

I will lower my FoMoCo flag to half-mast in belated memory.

These days one pulled a stunt like that, drunk or not & it's go to jail, diectly to jail yayada. But not then, not in those days. Can't recall exactly WTH did happen to ol' Boneass, but, that broken car sat across the street for a longest time, front end slightly elevated. LOL

A true indignity to all Ford lovers.

An addendum to Boneass. Was idling away some time one day, googling names of people from the past, Dod Ol' Boness' name & it pops up on a legal recording. He was charged, and convicted on his 3rd DUI.
Now we couldn't see THAT coming all those years ago, eh? LOL!!

Didn't need a palm reader for that, LOL