Thread: A week off
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10-04-2014 05:09 PM #151
And for those serious Flathead guys.
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10-04-2014 05:14 PM #152
A couple more Flatheads with conversions, the familiar Ardun and a lesser known "Tornado".
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10-04-2014 05:17 PM #153
Another Flathead conversion that I hadn't seen before. And it's a true hemi!
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10-04-2014 05:19 PM #154
A couple random shots.
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10-04-2014 05:23 PM #155
This was Edsel Fords "hot rod". It has a 6 cylinder engine and at that time Ford didn't manufacture any 6 cylinders.. Edsel wanted them to but Henry wouldn't hear of it.
This one has the boat tail rear body, tires have no tread, and there's more gauges in it that most cars of the day.
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10-04-2014 05:28 PM #156
Can you tell by now that I am a huge Riley fan?!?!?!
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10-04-2014 05:30 PM #157
Some more random shots and a bit more from HAL .
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10-04-2014 05:32 PM #158
Anyone ever see this one before?
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10-04-2014 05:34 PM #159
Here's a real survivor!
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10-04-2014 05:38 PM #160
And another survivor. The museum was given this as long as they promised to display it in the state/ condition that Bill found it! Can you imagine bombing around the Midwest in this setup?!?! The truck has the same engine as the racer, hi-compression heads and all! I figure it was their backup motor for the race car
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10-04-2014 05:41 PM #161
Almost to the end.. here's one you don't see everyday! Since they didn't have to pay Petty, they had enough money to go Indy racing???
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10-04-2014 05:48 PM #162
Some more random shots. The doors to the "garages" are reportedly the original doors from the Indy motor speedway.
The all aluminum motor is from the Aurora.. remember that one?
And a Mouse DOHC SBC
The 2 racers... just beautiful!
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10-04-2014 05:53 PM #163
And these are the last... my camera battery died and I got no other pics...
So here's the other Steadybreaker.. I mean Studebaker!
And a Chevy... kind of...
Hope you enjoyed it all.. Hope I wasn't a bore! It was fun sharing it all with you.
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10-04-2014 08:44 PM #164
Crikey!
That was awesome!
Thanks for sharing...much appreciated.
Loved the story about the pedal car...and how the fella had kept it for seventy years.
(Hell, I'm about as bad! I've got toys up in my shed I've kept for sixty years!)johnboy
Mountain man. (Retired.)
Some mistakes are too much fun to be made only once.
I don't know everything about anything, and I don't know anything about lots of things.
'47 Ford sedan. 350 -- 350, Jaguar irs + ifs.
'49 Morris Minor. Datsun 1500cc, 5sp manual, Marina front axle, Nissan rear axle.
'51 Ford school bus. Chev 400 ci Vortec 5 sp manual + Gearvendors 2sp, 2000 Chev lwb dually chassis and axles.
'64 A.C. Cobra replica. Ford 429, C6 auto, Torana ifs, Jaguar irs.
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10-05-2014 04:12 AM #165
Thanks for the reply JB... some of the pedal cars were extremely old and the mechanisms were very intricate and complicated. The boy and his car - that "car" cost almost as much as the real deal! It was really more like the salesmen sample. A different time / era to be sure!
I don't remember seeing any pedal school bus!
Welcome to CHR. I think that you need to hook up your vacuum advance. At part throttle when cruising you have less air and fuel in each cylinder, and the air-fuel mixture is not as densely packed...
MSD 8360 distributor vacuum advance