If you had a 352 that got 25 MPG in anything - regardess of the gearing - you could probably get rich on it - since it's a miracle. It should burn more fuel than that just sitting and idling.
I've got four diesel trucks right now with 3.08 axles and none can get 25 MPG.
I had a 1964 Sunbeam Tiger sports-car (Carol Shelby designed) with a stock small-block Ford 260 V-8, two-barrel carb and 3.07 axle coupled to a four-speed manual trans. Whole car only weighed 2200 lbs. It got 22 MPG with it once on a long trip. And, that was a lot lighter and more aerodynamic than any Ford pickup. And - I was a member of a Sunbeam Tiger club and knew many other owners. All reported the same sort of mileage and some had 2.70 rear-axles.
My little Isuzu mini-4Wd truck with a 2.2 diesel gets 27 MPG at best.
My best 6.2 diesel (379 cubic inches) in a 1/2 ton Chevy 4WD truck with 3.08 axles and a four-speed manual with a .7 overdrive gets 24 MPG at best.
I went with my dad in 1959 to pick up the only new car he bought in my lifetime. It was advertised as Ford's best fuel-mileage rig. A two-door business coupe (as they called it back then) with the "Mileage-maker Six" that was 223 cubic inches. Three speed stick on the column, manual choke, high rear-axle ratio, and windshield wipers that ran off the fuel-pump and stopped whenever you stomped on the gas pedal. He verified once, on a 400 mile highway trip at 60 MPH that it got a whopping 19.5 MPG which he thought was pretty impressive. Maybe at the time, it was.
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