[Bernica]

Great stories! Brings back memories about how I got into Ford FE's in the first place.
When I was young(er), back in the mid seventies in the Seattle area, the guy I worked for was a total Ford racer and connected to all the dealerships with the "Muscle Parts". When Ford pulled the plug, he got word from his buddies at the dealerships to bring a big truck. I helped him load up shelves full of everything you can think of: tunnel port heads and manifolds of every configuration, lots of heads & manifolds of all sorts, 100 or more cams (new in the tubes), cranks, lifters, springs, gaskets etc. I mean pallet racks full of stuff!! You get the idea.
We also loaded up one moving truck with crate motors from Ford, all wrapped in plastic and still with the shipping tags. Three complete cammers, a bunch of sideoilers, long-blocks, short-blocks, service blocks, and some aluminum motors that said "NASCAR" on them. There were also three Boss 429's. I remember that either the Boss 429's or the Cammers had tags with "T" or "S" on them. My boss had told me that this is how they identified the "racing" and "street" versions.
We loaded all of this stuff in a big building out near Puyallup, WA. The guy was a slippery one, and he dissapeared some time after, leaving many Ford folks looking for him. He owed me several weeks pay too. Some things you never forget, good or bad. Ahhhh, the memories....