1950 Tudor Gets a Performance Lift with U.S. Gear's V²OD Overdrive!

What do you do when you're cruising down the highway in your beefed-up Tudor and you want to have a conversation with your friend in the passenger seat?  Well, you can SCREAM -- or you can install a V²OD Overdrive and quiet down the atmosphere.

A customer in California recently installed a unit on a Tudor which has been in his family since it was new.  We'll let Joe tell the story.

The Short Story
"My father purchased the car in 1963 from his aunt who purchased it new in 1950. Originally the car had a flat head six and 3-speed, until 1984. That is when my dad put in a wheezy 307 Chevy and ubiquitous Power-slide transmission. Eventually I got into hot rodding and saw potential in the old "Blue Ford," as I called it when I was growing up.

Just as I got my first job the family station wagon just began to crap out. My plans of robbing the 429 big block and C-6 trans from the wagon were soon realized with help from my younger brother and father. Plans to stick a 460 crank in it were abandoned when Harry Vellios, the owner of our favorite machine shop announced that he had a stroker crank, pistons, and 6.8" Chevy rods, and numerous other goodies...

After acquiring only 200 mile on the odometer, a US Gear VČOD 30% overdrive was put into commission to ease the commute to the nearest (legal) dragstrip that is 40 miles away and also to cut back on the thirsty motors $2.25 per gallon, Los Angeles priced, 91 octane diet. Initially intended to go fast in a straight line, the car has evolved into an all around impressive driver with it's beefy powerplant, fat rear meats, trick front and rear suspension, awesome brakes and overdrive transmission all wrapped in a beautiful but deceivingly stock '50 Ford envelope. However, the car truly is a devil in a blue dress when called upon to be. I plan on holding onto the car forever and perhaps passing on its' 53 year Sander history to my children."

You can contact Joe at jls5.4@netzero.net

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