Thread: Any Nailhead fans here?
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12-26-2006 08:19 PM #1
Any Nailhead fans here?
I don't currently own one, but I've built a few, and I'm a big fan.
I'm looking for a picture of a blown nailhead, front view, for a tattoo I'm working on.
Thanks.there's nuthin' wrong with her, a hundred dollars won't fix.
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12-26-2006 09:31 PM #2
Never built one myself, but think they are one of the prettiest engines made, when dressed out. I was going to build a '60 nailhead for a '33 I had in about 1965. I bought the entire running Buick for $ 100, but before I could tear it down a buddy of mine got married, and needed a car. He begged and begged me to sell him the Buick, but I ended up giving it to him as a wedding gift.
Wish I had that engine now.
Don
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12-27-2006 06:51 AM #3
Yup, love them old nailheads!!! Got 2 complete engines and some spare parts too go with them.... Don't know of any blown pics, might try a google search for Nailhead Engines and see what comes up...Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, Live for Today!
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12-27-2006 09:11 AM #4
Always heard the term "nailhead" is that any flat head, just buicks or what?
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12-27-2006 06:16 PM #5
Originally Posted by chevydrivinPLANET EARTH, INSANE ASYLUM FOR THE UNIVERSE.
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12-28-2006 06:47 AM #6
Originally Posted by chevydrivinYesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, Live for Today!
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12-28-2006 06:50 AM #7
My ever-deteriorating memory tell me the term "nailhead" came as a result of the head design of the earliest Buick V8 engines.
These engines, with their narrow vertical valve covers, just gotta be the handsomest engines ever made, but the valve size was pretty limited by the design of the heads. The small valves look like nails, hence the nickname "nailhead". In fact we used to hear them referred to as "nail-valve engines" sometimes.
I wish I had one. I don't need one, but that doesn't matter. I wish I had one anyway.
Jim
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12-28-2006 04:24 PM #8
Yup, got some pics of one in my gallery..Neat enginesYesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, Live for Today!
Carroll Shelby
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12-28-2006 04:52 PM #9
Nailheads belong in a vintage rod with no hood . . . or in any vintage Buick.
We need more Buick, Olds, Caddy and Pontiac rods.Jack
Gone to Texas
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12-28-2006 05:05 PM #10
I'm beginning to think my next hoodless and fenderless rod might just have a V-10 Ford with 5 downdraft Webers...... Unique is what we seek, but bizarre is what we are!!!!!!!Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, Live for Today!
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12-28-2006 05:35 PM #11
Originally Posted by techinspector1You don't know what you've got til it's gone
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12-28-2006 05:55 PM #12
Dave,
Funny you should mention it . . . .Jack
Gone to Texas
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12-28-2006 06:09 PM #13
Way Kewl, Jack!!!! Had the same on the hood of a sprinter back in mid 70's.... One of the guys had decals made with the car number and that saying.... Sure as heck wish I would have kept one.... Oh well...Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, Live for Today!
Carroll Shelby
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12-28-2006 06:10 PM #14
i've got a '55 nailhead that was rebuilt 20 years ago, never been run since the rebuild..... just taking up space in my shed..... always been lookin for an old buick to throw it in but if someone makes the right offer who knowsjust because your car is faster, doesn't mean i cant outdrive you... give me a curvy mountain road and i'll beat you any day
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12-28-2006 06:19 PM #15
Were nailheads an option or standard. Cause I know a guy that has a junkyard full of old cars and he has several 55,56,57 buicks amongst other things
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