I'm sticking a 235 in my '53. I went to a car show to see if I could talk to people who had done the same thing so I could take some pictures and talk to some experienced people. Almost every truck I looked at had a 350 in it, and most of the owners didn’t even do the work themselves. I could always tell which truck had a six in it because there was always a small crowd around them, whereas the trucks with the v8 gathered little interest.
V8s are fun, they are fast and easy to work on, but if you put a strong fast engine in your truck, you will have to really upgrade your brakes and suspension far more than if you went with a strait six(in my opinion), because you will be tempted to push that truck as fast as the v8 will take it. But that’s just me. I don’t like power windows, power seats, loud stereos, funky paint jobs with graphics or crushed velvet dash covers in these trucks either
And yes, I do think it's fun to drive with only 150 hp.
