[Dan Case]

Paul was a good friend and over the decades we spent many hours talking 1960s Fords. He would stop by frequently as he passed near my home. I went over to his place many times. Paul worked for Ford before Ford stopped production here and had several 1965-70 Mustangs including a 1965 coupe he drove to about 300,000 miles, several Panteras including a 6,000 mile one he bought new and was never in the rain or washed with running water, and a very limited edition Linclon he bought new . Ford parts wise he had collected a large number of nos service parts for all the cars he had if the service parts were just like the production ones. He kept his new in the 1967 boxes (which only one had been opened) 1967 Shelby Mustang ten spoke wheels in a spare bed room. Paul worked for Ford but was into Corvettes (mostly before 1980s models) in a very big way. He had many more Corvette parts than Ford ones. The last time I visited was before his illness robbed his memory. We talked for hours. Sadly he passed on several years ago now.

Paul was a fixture in the local Corvette community always ready to help with repairs, how to information, or just parts. I don’t know about the Corvette circles but us old Ford guys around here miss Paul and his name comes up fairly often.

Now the intake in question. It has been a long time ago but that intake was one of several, let’s say, unusual parts stored in the attic of his home. He had me climb up into the attic one day to retrieve something when I came across a very light weight Ford FE engine intake, the intake shown in the first post. I brought the intake to the door to ask Paul about it. From my memory I believe he said it was for a late 1950s FE engine NASCAR effort but got banned.

Dan