[Aredubjay]

I think, to be fair, we should differentiate between "Modern" and "Pre-80's" Fords. I've told the story before about the 72 LTD that we bought from some friends for 300.00. Looked like crap, but ran like a dream. It had 145K on it when we bought it. We sold it a few years later for 100.00, and the only reason we did, was because, the price of replacing the donut gaskets was going to exceed the value of the car. The guy who bought it was going to remove the 351W and put it in a pick-up truck. Oh, and he was already aware that the engine had 356K+ miles on it.