Pandoras Box - Cooling and electrical, well mostly continued

Big tacky Griffen expensive aluminum radiator with too small a direct drive flex fan.

This is the original Ford copper brass radiator. I am a little concerned using it because it's 53 years old, but sadly it's in much better shape than the aftermarket aluminum thing as we shall see. The direct replacement for this 3 row radiator is about 800 dollars and the double density version is around 900 dollars.

All the fins are intact, there's no degradation I can see, it's clean and didn't leak when it was in the '68 LTD for a couple years. For a 53 year old radiator it's in seemingly good shape.

Although I did get into an argument with the original petcock. I didn't like what it had to say.

So the receipt for this 800 dollar radiator said direct fit...... Ummmmmmmmm no.

Hell no. Plus they had to bend the original upper bracket. This is why I prepped the other one. It's unmolested.