In 1974 I was a Jr. in H.S. and I bought a repossessed '70 Mustang Mach I with a 351 Cleveland. As a Ford kid I knew a little bit about what I was getting but i didn't know the subtleties of the Mach I options (this was before I came to understand deciphering VIN numbers, etc.). Once me and mine buddy went over it, it appeared to be all OEM and I was happy to discover it was a 4v car with a close ratio top loader. A couple months later my Dad (who was an old Ford guy and a Rocket Engineer out at Cape Canaveral) and I and my best friend pulled the engine with the intention of converting it to a mech cam setup and taking a look inside. Much to my surprise when we pulled the oil pan we saw 4 bolt mains....at that time we all thought perhaps the 4v engines came with 4 bolt mains but I learned later that only the '71 Boss 351 cars came with 4 bolt mains. So I have always figured as my car was a late year car they must have had some 4 bolt blocks lying around and thru happenstance I got one. Anyway when my Dad saw that he decided he'd like to go through the blueprint process. I certainly learned a lot about building "race" engines and performing precision machining. The engine came out the other end with a dyno'd 545 BHP on a single 1150 Holley with mech secondaries, with a single plane Edelbrock intake, hooker headers, a sizable isky mechanical roller cam, mallory dual point ignition and 12.0:1 compression. The car ran very smoothly but required Sunoco 106 octane fuel, which in '74 was still available. I only had the car for just under two years, as I sold it when I went off to Engineering College, but though I have had lots of fast cars since then (I currently own a 2019 Ferrari 488 Spider) that Mach I with the Cleveland is still the car I have the fondest memories of. I never lost a street race and was generally acknowledged as having the fastest car in town.
In the mid-80s I was in Roush’s shop with a friend who was having a Ford Ranger modified. The two things I remember seeing are: 1.A few continuation Cobras being assembled 2. A white Mustang II with a Boss 429
I was fortunate enough to see this car run at Edgewater. I also got to talk to him while he was working on the car between rounds. He was very approachable and free to talk about what he was doing. A great racer and a a great man.
Jack Roush is the greatest ever. Piston ring package is so critical. I’ve got a 351-Cleveland going into my 86 mustang next after the Windsor. This Cleveland went mid 9’s on a 150 shot at 8300 rpms with factory iron closed chamber heads. Mechanical roller cam with the Parker funnel web intake, and 1000 cfm 4150 Holley.
Keep up the great work and have a great weekend and next time you need to show us the historical stuff like that tach working along with it running. God bless your family and work. Great evening to you. Thanks for the invite to the party and letting us watch and see everything! Thanks so much.
The paint looks 5 times better than the original up close i’ll bet. Love these early drag cars. Back then it was raw, driver and tuner (minus a laptop) oriented racing.
I'll say Dyno Don was THE Cleveland man. He had big cube all aluminum match race 351c engines that Ford only gave him the experimental aluminum blocks to. Way over 400ci they were, dont think Glidden had any of those.
@@BlueByYou07 thats what makes Glidden and his undefeated Fairmont that much more impressive, and Jon Kaase was the guy that did all DD 's ford motors and was his crew chief. Glidden also did all of his own work ncluding machine work and clutch building because he couldnt afford to pay anyone to do it for him
Meet Jack at his shop I Charlotte few years back he took to take pictures with me and grandkid watched the 4 door maverick race at Bristol and several other cars of his
I just can't get enough of the guys that made this sport what it is today and Jack Roush is definitely one of those men. Most of the fans these days have no idea how men like this solved the problems and engineered the solutions that are still being used to this day. Thanks for sharing!
Wow seeing those heads brings me back to the 70s. Had a set on a 347 Cleveland bought all the parts from him. Had it in a tube chassis Pinto with a Nash 5spd similar to the chassis there..nice job EVAN thanks for the stroke down memory lane
Man, that little Buggy is the shit. Gapp and Roush , Glidden were my idols built and ran a 351-4v because of them…. Wasn’t what they had done but made my 68 mustang kinda special.
I have an original GAPP & Roush crank shaft at home. Got it from an engine shop that was said to do some work for them. They had a few Cleveland parts laying around.
its great to see jack is out & about & doing well.the man is a living legond.getting up in years & still loving life.hope he has many happy years still in front of him.jack has my total respect for his accomplishments.
I love hearing stories of old days and 351 cleveland,being a Aussie i cannot work out why cleveland wasnt more popular in the US even though i know it was only out for a few years
Check out DragBoss Garage. He is Cleveland focused and dedicated to keeping the early Pro Stock legacy alive He's really been killin it the last few weeks with his historical content. ruclips.net/user/DragBoss351Clevelandvideos
Nice workin on cars that are clean. Just repaired one some lady ran over a skunk & then a opossum and a couple squirrels maybe a cat. All this right before lunch.
I have a tach drive distributor for a 302 with the cable splitter just like the one at 2:02. One cable went to the tach and the other went to a Moroso centrifugal rev limiter. No MSD back then.
Saw this car at the 1974 Gatornationals,my first Nhra national event I attended.Both the GandR Pinto and MustangII qualified in the 16 car field.Jack made it to the final and lost to Wally Booth on a hole shot.What I thought was cool was the hatchback blew off the Mustang in eliminations and broke into a million pieces so someone found a white Mustang rental car and borrowed the heavy metal hatchback .It was white so they attached it with 150 mph racing tape, pulled weight out and ran it.If you look closely you can see the white hatchback in the 1974 video.Very cool
I love it! Back in the days when just about anybody could build a Pro Stock car, and the bodies actually looked stock.. I really hope Jack runs that car hard down the track one more time.
The sound of that Cleveland, like an industrial microwave popping corn, brings back memories of when a few hard-working, regular guys could get together and field a competitive car.
Evan, please keep this content up! Listening to Jacks’s stories makes my day. Love to hear all those little secrets that he used to make his stuff so fast. He is a true innovator.
Those were some of Fords glory days, thanks to G&R, Dyno,& Glidden! I seen the one picture where their car had the #1! Brings back so many great memories, watching all these great legends racing at the US NATIONALS. Year after year,it was the Fords winning P/S there, I'm 68 now & I'd give anything to see competitive Fords back!❤😎👍🏆
That's when Pro Stock was Pro Stock. Does he have the Pinto? I saw that run down in Gainesville FLA. I have photos of that one somewhere. I also use to have a Bud Moore 351 Cleveland with the raised exhaust port plates, and put that in my 1969 Mustang Mach1. Damn I wish I still had it.
I had the privilege of watching this car in nhra competition when I was a young man ! The 351 cleveland , brainchild of Jack Roush himself as a Ford engineer !! This, the 351 cleveland engine that Jack designed , listed in the NHRA rulebook for pro stock in that era as having " an unfair horsepower advantage over the small block chevrolet " . " Therefore the clevelands must run at a heavier car weight to allow the chevrolets to compete " Had these cars run even up against the competition , the fords would have won all the races of the small block era !!!!!!!
Wasn't the silver, street, big block Mustang II called "Sudden Death"? I remember reading a magazine story where the owner enjoyed taking his foreign car owning friends for a "ride they would never forget"!!!
@@barneymiller7894 M A Y B E? Lol I just remember a black & white article in a magazine that I probably still have somewhere. It's a M2, Silver, slicks on slots, 14' fronts CobraJet(?) hood scoop, big block car, with mention of Woodward? Possibly? Bad car!
@@calvincooley1074 Yep, that's Sudden Death. Owned by Joe Rugirello with Roush built chassis and 505ci big block Ford. It was undisputed as one of the fastest street race cars in Detroit in the 70s. The car could run 9s through a full exhaust with Corvair Turbo mufflers.
Great historical channel. Thank You.
I Can't Get Enough history from Roush he's the man and I love the freaking cars thank you Revan Evan
A great video Jack is still the same . He will always be a racer and that knowledge is unbelievable . He raced in my town and I'm glad he did
Thank you for showing us this awesome car Evan.
In 1974 I was a Jr. in H.S. and I bought a repossessed '70 Mustang Mach I with a 351 Cleveland. As a Ford kid I knew a little bit about what I was getting but i didn't know the subtleties of the Mach I options (this was before I came to understand deciphering VIN numbers, etc.). Once me and mine buddy went over it, it appeared to be all OEM and I was happy to discover it was a 4v car with a close ratio top loader. A couple months later my Dad (who was an old Ford guy and a Rocket Engineer out at Cape Canaveral) and I and my best friend pulled the engine with the intention of converting it to a mech cam setup and taking a look inside. Much to my surprise when we pulled the oil pan we saw 4 bolt mains....at that time we all thought perhaps the 4v engines came with 4 bolt mains but I learned later that only the '71 Boss 351 cars came with 4 bolt mains. So I have always figured as my car was a late year car they must have had some 4 bolt blocks lying around and thru happenstance I got one. Anyway when my Dad saw that he decided he'd like to go through the blueprint process. I certainly learned a lot about building "race" engines and performing precision machining. The engine came out the other end with a dyno'd 545 BHP on a single 1150 Holley with mech secondaries, with a single plane Edelbrock intake, hooker headers, a sizable isky mechanical roller cam, mallory dual point ignition and 12.0:1 compression. The car ran very smoothly but required Sunoco 106 octane fuel, which in '74 was still available. I only had the car for just under two years, as I sold it when I went off to Engineering College, but though I have had lots of fast cars since then (I currently own a 2019 Ferrari 488 Spider) that Mach I with the Cleveland is still the car I have the fondest memories of. I never lost a street race and was generally acknowledged as having the fastest car in town.
The engine sounded AWESOME!
I've been in that shop 2 times. As a Ford guy I drooled every second
True Legend of motorsports, thanks for showing such craftsmanship from way back to today...can't wait to see that launch down the 1/4 mile again!
In the mid-80s I was in Roush’s shop with a friend who was having a Ford Ranger modified. The two things I remember seeing are:
1.A few continuation Cobras being assembled
2. A white Mustang II with a Boss 429
I was fortunate enough to see this car run at Edgewater. I also got to talk to him while he was working on the car between rounds. He was very approachable and free to talk about what he was doing. A great racer and a a great man.
I love the custom steel valve covers
Jack Roush is the greatest ever. Piston ring package is so critical. I’ve got a 351-Cleveland going into my 86 mustang next after the Windsor. This Cleveland went mid 9’s on a 150 shot at 8300 rpms with factory iron closed chamber heads. Mechanical roller cam with the Parker funnel web intake, and 1000 cfm 4150 Holley.
Thanks for another great video Jack needs to grow his sideburns back that he had from the late 70s
A fantastic video with one of the kings of Ford racing. Thanks for sharing this special Ford racing icon with us.
Top notch content!
Thanks
Sweet video. Great car.
Evan you lucky white boy. Jack is definitely one of my top Ford heroes and one I would like to meet.
Motor sounds purdy tight😎
Wow, can’t believe it’s got a radiator! Streetcar baby!
Jack Roush an absolute legend…. Much Respect
Keep up the great work and have a great weekend and next time you need to show us the historical stuff like that tach working along with it running. God bless your family and work. Great evening to you. Thanks for the invite to the party and letting us watch and see everything! Thanks so much.
The paint looks 5 times better than the original up close i’ll bet.
Love these early drag cars. Back then it was raw, driver and tuner (minus a laptop) oriented racing.
Clevelands are sick. Bob Gliddan was the man with them
The most handicapped engine of the era.
Glidden was untouchable
Robert Yates was pretty good with them too.
I'll say Dyno Don was THE Cleveland man. He had big cube all aluminum match race 351c engines that Ford only gave him the experimental aluminum blocks to. Way over 400ci they were, dont think Glidden had any of those.
@@BlueByYou07 thats what makes Glidden and his undefeated Fairmont that much more impressive, and Jon Kaase was the guy that did all DD 's ford motors and was his crew chief. Glidden also did all of his own work ncluding machine work and clutch building because he couldnt afford to pay anyone to do it for him
Very cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
From back when there was actually some Stock basis in Pro Stock.
Good Lord!! Sound is beyond awesome
Oh wow! I remember that car!
Well when you talk Ford racers from back in the day it was Gapp & Roush, Dyno Don, & Bob Glidden.
Meet Jack at his shop I Charlotte few years back he took to take pictures with me and grandkid watched the 4 door maverick race at Bristol and several other cars of his
74 Mustang II my life!
Love Jacks chops in the day!
Cool ass original Pro Stock
Wow. That mighty Cleavland
Awesome interview! Thank you for the video!
Great car, great man. Thanks
I just can't get enough of the guys that made this sport what it is today and Jack Roush is definitely one of those men.
Most of the fans these days have no idea how men like this solved the problems and engineered the solutions that are still being used to this day. Thanks for sharing!
What an awesome spot with Jack. Great job Evan. The car looks and sounds awesome
Wow seeing those heads brings me back to the 70s. Had a set on a 347 Cleveland bought all the parts from him. Had it in a tube chassis Pinto with a Nash 5spd similar to the chassis there..nice job EVAN thanks for the stroke down memory lane
You’re welcome Timothy.
This is gold ! The Cleveland that ate Cleveland ! And that's the one that didn't make enough power ...... from inventory !!!
Very cool!
Man, that little Buggy is the shit. Gapp and Roush , Glidden were my idols built and ran a 351-4v because of them…. Wasn’t what they had done but made my 68 mustang kinda special.
I have an original GAPP & Roush crank shaft at home. Got it from an engine shop that was said to do some work for them. They had a few Cleveland parts laying around.
I was always a gliden guy but jack was the one that never left ford and he seems to never forget his stuff
❤😂😢😮😅😅😊😊 that’s nice awesome shop when these days I go and see it
That is bad ass
I love this generation of drag racing.
Of course jack shows up
Ya had his drag car runnin'
What a legend
Thanks for a peek y'all
Awesome see old mustang coming back to Life great job
its great to see jack is out & about & doing well.the man is a living legond.getting up in years & still loving life.hope he has many happy years still in front of him.jack has my total respect for his accomplishments.
Awesome!
The 4-Door Maverick was their legacy car!
DAM I LOVE THAT CAR
I love hearing stories of old days and 351 cleveland,being a Aussie i cannot work out why cleveland wasnt more popular in the US even though i know it was only out for a few years
Check out DragBoss Garage. He is Cleveland focused and dedicated to keeping the early Pro Stock legacy alive He's really been killin it the last few weeks with his historical content. ruclips.net/user/DragBoss351Clevelandvideos
I wanted to give a few more thumbs up when he stated that bad boy up!
Nice workin on cars that are clean. Just repaired one some lady ran over a skunk & then a opossum and a couple squirrels maybe a cat. All this right before lunch.
Nice to see those old pro stockers restored. Love those Clevelands. Thanks 😊🙏
I have a tach drive distributor for a 302 with the cable splitter just like the one at 2:02. One cable went to the tach and the other went to a Moroso centrifugal rev limiter. No MSD back then.
Jack - Bring that mustache back!
Saw this car at the 1974 Gatornationals,my first Nhra national event I attended.Both the GandR Pinto and MustangII qualified in the 16 car field.Jack made it to the final and lost to Wally Booth on a hole shot.What I thought was cool was the hatchback blew off the Mustang in eliminations and broke into a million pieces so someone found a white Mustang rental car and borrowed the heavy metal hatchback .It was white so they attached it with 150 mph racing tape, pulled weight out and ran it.If you look closely you can see the white hatchback in the 1974 video.Very cool
I love it! Back in the days when just about anybody could build a Pro Stock car, and the bodies actually looked stock.. I really hope Jack runs that car hard down the track one more time.
Wow! That is and honor from Jack to ask you to drive that beast on the 1/4 milles.
Glad to see Jack bringing back the old pro stock cars. They dominated in the mid 70's
Evan does a great job. What a fantastic channel this is turning out to be.
Thanks Daniel
WOW! THIS IS AWESOME.
Have a 4V CJ Cleveland for a future project.
Special treat seeing Jack and discussion.
I had that same feeling you experienced when he fired that thing up just watching the video. Can’t imagine what it was like in person. Great video!!!
The sound of that Cleveland, like an industrial microwave popping corn, brings back memories of when a few hard-working, regular guys could get together and field a competitive car.
Evan, please keep this content up! Listening to Jacks’s stories makes my day. Love to hear all those little secrets that he used to make his stuff so fast. He is a true innovator.
I’ll do my best. Hoping people can share our RUclips channel to help us grow.
Amazing car, I remember seeing it in magazines back in the day.
Incredible cubes, bk 30yrs ago could only DREAM of building a v8 that was tuff, WoW what an engineer Mr Roush is & a humble gentleman
You could set a cup a coffee on that Cleveland while running not even get a ripple very smooth ,
Good to see the Mustang II being restored. I see a Maverick behind the Mustang II.......TJ TAXI?????
DAMN!! So awesome you have such a great relationship with Jack. Keep dropping hints so you can make some passes in that ride!
Those were some of Fords glory days, thanks to G&R, Dyno,& Glidden! I seen the one picture where their car had the #1! Brings back so many great memories, watching all these great legends racing at the US NATIONALS. Year after year,it was the Fords winning P/S there, I'm 68 now & I'd give anything to see competitive Fords back!❤😎👍🏆
It's kind of tough for the Fords to be winning, when they start beating GM, the GM owners complain and a new rule pops up.
@@RSDX99 RD yep Gm owns the racing bodies
It only takes one Ford to beat a hundred Chevys
Love these videos Evan!! 🔥🔥👊
Thanks
What an amazing man and interview! Anything jack Roush blows my mind! I could listen to his stories and knowledge all day long. Thanks Evan!
Roush are a real legend and a pioneer in the car domain :)
That car was sitting at building 13 I think in 97 when I worked at Roush.
Evan u have the coolest job. Coming to Woodward next weekend?
Just Roadkill Nights.
@@revanevan been a fan since MM/FF. Project Stocker kinda old. Lol. I'll look for ya. ✌
I'm a simple man...I see Roush/Gapp I smash the like button
I'm glad that they're restoring that great piece of history. Then to get a chance to talk to a legend like Jack Roush, talk about a good day.
Dyno Don Nicholson would even be impressed
I could spend a week just listening to Jack as he has forgotten more than I ever knew about the historyof FoMoCo racing
Awesome stuff Evan! keep it up.... You are a corner stone to Ford Racing history! keep up the work sir!
Thank you
AWESOME! Holy Crap Evan, you are absolutely killin it on this channel!
It’s nice to see Jack getting some great exposure. He’ll never get from the GM run NASCAR or NHRA.
Yeah they own the racing bodies Gm
That's when Pro Stock was Pro Stock. Does he have the Pinto? I saw that run down in Gainesville FLA. I have photos of that one somewhere. I also use to have a Bud Moore 351 Cleveland with the raised exhaust port plates, and put that in my 1969 Mustang Mach1. Damn I wish I still had it.
ruclips.net/video/xmjSlRrjGdE/видео.html
That’s a good ‘ol man👨🏻🦳
I had the privilege of watching this car in nhra competition when I was a young man ! The 351 cleveland , brainchild of Jack Roush himself as a Ford engineer !! This, the 351 cleveland engine that Jack designed , listed in the NHRA rulebook for pro stock in that era as having " an unfair horsepower advantage over the small block chevrolet " . " Therefore the clevelands must run at a heavier car weight to allow the chevrolets to compete " Had these cars run even up against the competition , the fords would have won all the races of the small block era !!!!!!!
Those canted valve heads, especially when modified flowed levels Chevy heads could only dream of.
Mr Roush is a nice man. He's as legit as they come and they knowledge that he has lost is more than I'll ever gain. He's one smart dude.
For some reason much of the NASCAR fan community has never liked him and I've never been able to figure out why.
Is that the Taxi 4-door Pro Stocker on the lift behind the Mustang?
It will be a recreation.
Love the Cat in the Hat. What a cool car. That was pure music
❤😂😂😢😢😢😮😅😊😊😊 I’m like a kid in the candy store, listening to that outside the parking lot
Nice! Is that the Tijuana Taxi Maverick behind it?
Evan, I think you will get the first crack at it. Man I love Jack he's one of my heroes.
Wasn't the silver, street, big block Mustang II called "Sudden Death"? I remember reading a magazine story where the owner enjoyed taking his foreign car owning friends for a "ride they would never forget"!!!
Yes.
Is that the 4 door Maverick in the background?
Those extended factory valve covers are the cat's ass!
Is that the Tijuana Taxi in the background?
Loving this! Hoping to see that Maverick in the background in the future.
Hopefully we'll see the Silver big block street M2 in the future as well!
Are you talking about the Sudden Death Mustang 2?
@@barneymiller7894 M A Y B E? Lol I just remember a black & white article in a magazine that I probably still have somewhere. It's a M2, Silver, slicks on slots, 14' fronts CobraJet(?) hood scoop, big block car, with mention of Woodward? Possibly?
Bad car!
@@calvincooley1074 Yep, that's Sudden Death. Owned by Joe Rugirello with Roush built chassis and 505ci big block Ford. It was undisputed as one of the fastest street race cars in Detroit in the 70s. The car could run 9s through a full exhaust with Corvair Turbo mufflers.
Badass 👍🏼🏁
Ah Damn didn’t get the Dyno result from that dynometer question 🤦🏻♂️lol
Do I see a four-door Maverick in the background.......meaning there will be a replica of the "Tijuana Taxi" ???