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It's amazing when you think that at the most they had a lathe and maybe a shaper.. a well equipped shop might have a horizontal mill.. when I read that the one engine had 40 hours of polishing and...

It is amazing in it's own right, isn't it!?!? Pieces of art imho. I am so glad I made this trip, got to meet and hang out with you and Bones, saw a really cool car show and saw parts of the country...

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!...

And these are the last... my camera battery died and I got no other pics...

So here's the other Steadybreaker.. I mean Studebaker! :p

And a Chevy... kind of... :3dSMILE:

Hope you enjoyed...

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...

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??? :LOL:

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...

Here's a real survivor!

Anyone ever see this one before?

Some more random shots and a bit more from HAL .

Can you tell by now that I am a huge Riley fan?!?!?!:LOL:

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...

A couple random shots.

Another Flathead conversion that I hadn't seen before. And it's a true hemi!

A couple more Flatheads with conversions, the familiar Ardun and a lesser known "Tornado".

And for those serious Flathead guys.

And for those "Y- block" fans.

And now a chevy air cooled 4 that didn't come from a corvair.. and a doubled v-8...

How about an early chevy small block v-8? :D

Now a "different" motor to drool over. imagine 2500 hours in fabrication for just the motor?!?!:eek:

How about some more race cars?!?! :LOL: Or at least a midget racer!:3dSMILE:
As you can see, he had a pile of'em.

I believe I mentioned it earlier, Bill had to have had the worlds largest collection of pedal cars! Of note is the picture with the boy next to "his car".. He owned that car for some 70 years! His...

A couple shots of the real deal first years of Soap Box Derby racers. Bill's granddaughters also competed but the pics of their racers came out lousy...

Check out the front suspension and...

Here's a couple more of the "ROOM" :LOL: (my version of heaven!)

And a curious axle. Seems that Ford had a display at a worlds fair (forget if they said 35 or 36.) and to demonstrate how...

and then, around the corner was... "The ROOM!" :LOL:

Here's where they store engines and parts / pieces awaiting "preservation". Right next door to the workshops. Some had been on display already...