Glidden boss engine

Hi Everyone,
A fellow FORD brother I know has one of the last engines with factory head casings that Glidden ran before he went to the A/R setup.
He bought it from Barry Poole some years ago.He ran it and broke the crank!

And guess what he found?, a Jack Roush brand CAST crank!
Was this common then? Maybe they figured to go cheap since they were freshened after so many runs?

Seems they would have ran a billet one, since Glidden was tight with Ford then??
Supposedly Poole never touched the engine. Glidden wants the the heads back, but they are not for sale
What do you guys think?

We need pictures, Al.

x2 on pics man

Nevs wrote:We need pictures, Al.

OF COURSE !!! What were you thinking Al ??

bills a nice guy, if your not going to use them for racing, id sell them back to him, hopefully next month ill have time to stop by his place ,and visit again

Bill who?????
I dont have pics guys,BUT we all know what a cast one looks like when it breaks.
Plus it had Roushs name on it.

Just because my freind aint running them, DOES NOT mean he should sell them back IMO. Its his property.
I ever get over there, Ill take a pic for you cats. Id probably be too busy enjoying myself....
Al

Apparently from reading some information on the the 351 Cleveland site, Jack Roush preferred cast cranks to forged steel (Not a Cheap or money issue). Maybe this engine was assembled with this in mind ??? Just a thought relating to his name on the crank.

FWIW Mark

Good Mornin Al, how did it go at Goodguy's Norwalk? Did you take any Pic's for us? And did Randy get the 58 into the 8's yet.
Me and Tweety will be there next year

Rick,
Randy ran a 9.11 last I saw. It definately fell off for sure (loose valves). He went out early and was playing with them when we left. Guys that were doing good in the brackets were within 3 hundreths, so if ya could match that, you shouldnt have a problem there next year. Most of the guys running were out for fun, and it didnt seem like a competitive atmosphere.
The weather was very cool yesterday morning and windy. Sun was going in and out. The fuel guys were having fits. Plus after the bleachers,a strong West crosswind was unloading the fuel cars. Nanook almost lost it, bounced around to holy hell in the lights,ran a 8.14 to Pure Hells 7.89? and still won 1st round! Crazy.

Got a few pics,for sure. Will go back next year for sure. My Boy Graham and the his freind Chad got to set in a Comp front-engined digger, plus a 48 Ford Gasser! Some kids have all the luck, In my 46 years of going to the drags I have never been that lucky. Chad was so geeked he never stopped talking the moment we left home and got back!!, KIDS They wore me out.

You remember me telling ya about us trying to drive in and park pit-side on the phone?
Anyway Randy was parked very close to the south pit entrance. And I was damned if I was gonna carry ten pistons/rods and a goddamn seat to the far North and walk to the far West side where we had to park! A official saw us heading toward the gate and gave me a ride to get my truck,Cool. I got to the south gate and ran into that cunt I told you about on the phone. She told me I had to buy a $30. pass to cross and get my shit! WRONG! So I unloaded on her, basiclly telling her the show was over and that was that/etc. Luckily the kids werent with me ! But she gave in. $30 bucks to go 500 ft my ass!
IM DONE!
Al

She will be waiting on your A$$ next year,and she WILL open a can of WHOOP A$$ on you.

I'll just ride in your trailer next year!

cletus66 wrote:

Nevs wrote:We need pictures, Al.

OF COURSE !!! What were you thinking Al ??

Come on now pics pleaze

I dont know when i'll get over there to take some pics guys. Hes pretty far from me and kind of hard to get together with. Got ALOT on my plate right now
Sorry Guys. Dont mean to get yas all excited. I havent seen them yet, so Im in the same boat. I know its almost as bad as getting a chubby then told NO! for some of you probably
Regards.
Al

Howbout some pic's from Goodguy's

Its Grahams birthday today. I let the Wife handle that. I wish Bruno would change the photo format here. Dont really care for the Photo-bucket deal. The old site had a good setup to run them off the harddrive.

Al Martin wrote:I dont know when i'll get over there to take some pics guys. Hes pretty far from me and kind of hard to get together with. Got ALOT on my plate right now
Sorry Guys. Dont mean to get yas all excited. I havent seen them yet, so Im in the same boat. I know its almost as bad as getting a chubby then told NO! for some of you probably
Regards.
Al

I under stand man, just when ever ya get a chance