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Old 09-04-2016, 12:02 PM   #1
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Does anyone know how to find the story in the Feb. 1950 issue of mechanix illustrated?
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Old 09-04-2016, 01:15 PM   #2
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You might try googling the terms "Tom McCahill" and "hop up your car" to see what happens. 8^)


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The book itself is easily found if that's the way you want to go - $5 gets you it and 4 others and I'm sure he'd send you it alone if you wanted to save on postage.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/252495191076
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http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/2821319...&ul_noapp=true

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1950-FEB-AUT.../182265416965?

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Sounds like it might have been a series of articles. Found this post on the HAMB:

Grancor built hundreds of Ford V8s in the forties and fifties. Do a web search for the MI Ford, built by Grancor in 1950, for Tom McCahill, and written up in Mechanix Illustrated magazine. McCahill said this series of articles created more interest than anything else he ever wrote, and he got letters about it for years.

"Hopping-up and hot-rodding, as it used to be, does not seem to have the appeal that it once had when we ran the MI Ford story back in February 1950. With Andy Granatelli of Chicago, we took a standard 1949 Ford Tudor sedan and gently hopped it up, showing the readers each step we made and exactly how much it cost. This was one of our biggest stories of all. That MI Ford could do 0-60 in ten seconds flat and had a top of 112 mph."
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