I didn’t buy this but I spotted it locally on marketplace and thought it was wild looking. Homemade for a nailhead.
Recent find. No buy. The flatty is in bad shape. some kinda military service vehicle. Had a huge generator and an air compressor
Y-block Ford exhaust manifolds point forward . That’s how the trucks and pickups were . The Flathead powered generator might be a welder . That would be a cool piece of equipment to have
That must have been a thing amongst the propane dealers. I have one that was our local Propane dealer from the 50';s. Almost identical.
Never seen Y block valve covers shaped like that. At first I thought Studebaker or AMC. I’m not sure what it is
I thought Y-block when I was looking at the exhaust and the location of the nuts on the valve covers but those black tubular things on top of the intake were throwing me. I don’t know what function they might have.
Consolidated MA-2. Y-block powered. https://www.proxibid.com/lotinformation/79921965/consolidated-ma2-ground-power-unit-truck
Find. Going to grab PE-95 gen. Decodes as a early 50s Willy’s flathead. It turned over a little with its hand crank and this. Not grabbing this one
Anthony, the lifter covers on the red 4 banger read Continental Red Seal . Those are great engines. Used in several industrial applications from welders to forklifts .
An estate sale has been going on for the last three months. A scrap guy came in this weekend and bought the rest of what was left. I went today and picked up the Nova I had purchased. While I was there, I made a deal with the scrap man and bought two piles of misc trim and mouldings.... All this trim for $20!!
All of that trim in a deal like that is my dream come true but simultaneously my worst nightmare. In trying to figure out what some of it fits, I often go so deep into a rabbit hole that I cannot escape. Hopefully some of it is marked, or at least, lots of it was from the same few cars. There is likely many thousands of dollars worth of resale stuff there, if you can properly ID it. 20 bucks, though. Fuck. If you sell on eBay, make friends with someone who installs carpet. I ship all of my long moldings in carpet tubes (sometimes called "cores"), never had one get bent. Wacky shaped moldings get attached to sheets of insulation foam board and then wrapped in cardboard.
Some of it is marked and other pieces I recognized while I was loading it up. It's all mixed up though. There is probably 300-350 pounds of mostly stainless. Good idea on the packaging.
The postmark on the envelope is Aug, 1 1948. The decals have somehow slid most of the way off their backing. Even the hardware for mounting the topper is still in the little envelope.
Bought what was left over after the parts store around town here closed down. Some more stuff I'm just terrible about taking pictures.
Just brought this home from the auction yesterday. Really nice Knight console radio. Just needs some new knobs.
4-454 blocks, 4 sbc, around 12 cranks/head sets. Various misc small parts. Some neat stuff, most is just the generic left overs. The blocks and parts were left from customers never picking up. Borg warner pressure plates and clutch disc (If anyone has a old catalog, I haven't found any online). Ben (owner) passed away a few years ago and his wife and employees had taken most the good equipment and parts were sold. She was wanting to rent the building so I pretty much just gave scrap value, I got a good trailer and truck load though for what was left.
]Found this brass Krice carburetor at a estate sale. From what I found so far it is from about 1912. I found patent for a 1911 Krice. Supposedly for a boat or a stationary engine. It seems to be all there and in great shape.
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