Just baught a 1966 straight 6 coupe and had a few questions

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Congrats! You'll have to post some pics. With it sitting for two years you probably want to drain the gas out of it, refill it with clean gas. Check oil and anti-freeze also, of course. After that check for gas supply and spark. Gas supply you can just pull the fuel line out of the carb and see if it pumps gas out while turning over, though this does not guarantee its getting through the carb. (Gas could be gummed up in the carb, happened on my snowmobile this year after only sitting for the summer) As far as checking spark you can either pull a plug out and look for spark, or just hook up a timing light to a sparkplug wire and see if it flashes. If you have these two it should fire up, though it could be out of tune and run like crap. (the gas will still catch fire at some point) Do you plan on swapping to a v8? If so I wouldnt bother with the trans (though i have no experience with ford auto transmissions, I would imagine the internals are different between the 6 and the 8's) You should be able to buy a v8 auto trans and stick it behind the inline until you swap out. (if you do so) Though, like I said I dont know much about auto transmissions and if the flexplate and torque converter are compatible. Others on here im sure will be able to help ya out. Another thing you might want to invest in is an 8 or 9 inch rear, as the four lug wont hold up to much. (I blew mine up when i still had the inline in there) Good luck!