You think you hate modern fuelie swaps..........Check these out!

A lot of magazines are doing "30 years ago today" or 40 or 50 etc.  For all of us that are offended by modern LS motors in vintage GM Iron, and SRT8 Hemis in vintage Mopars and 4.6 / 5.4 mod motors in vintage Mustangs, apparently hot-rodders have been doing offensive cross-breeding since the beginning of time. Here's a few that I thought would really get some peoples blood boiling.  # 1 This one was actually featured in Hot Rod magazine in 1963.  A 1957 T-Bird with a 389 Pontiac under the hood, backed up by one the first B&M street / strip Hydro-matics. The car is still around today, and still has the Pontiac engine under the hood! Apparently it's a family heirloom, and the brothers that own it, say their keeping it for their kids. I'll bet this one really offended Ford fans. The 292 and 312 inch "Y-Block" Fords that came in 55-57 T-Birds were heavy and underpowered, but couldn't they have swapped in a 390 Ford instead of a 389 Pontiac?  # 2 This was a '34 Ford with a 401 Buick engine in it. They did say a lot of people griped about this one. No one really cared about Flatheads anymore, but wouldn't a 289 Ford have been a lot easier, and probably just as fast?  # 3 This was a 65 Rambler with a Small-block Chevy and a muncie 4-speed. This one I give a pass to. I mean who cared about a 65 Rambler in 1965?  # 4. This was a 72 Vega with a 215 inch Aluminum Buick V8. This was actually a nice car. The aluminum V8 only weighed 20 lbs more than the Vega engine, so it wasn't nose-heavy and ill-handling like the traditional Small-Block Chevy V8 Vega swaps.  I don't know why people were outraged-no one cared about Vegas when they were new! # 5 This was a 68 Mustang with a 472 Cadillac engine in it. That one really outraged everyone-Ford and GM guys alike.  Anyhow-here's bona-fide proof that people have been doing weird stuff to their cars for a long time-not just recently.  Mastermind