Jot Horne has been a dear friend since I worked with him back in the '60s at Bell Auto Parts. We still maintain a friendship even tho he lives in California and I now live it Arizona. It's always great to see the pioneers get the ink they so deserve! Jot is a great guy and a great friend I've been very blessed to have known him in my lifetime. All the folks who worked at Bell Auto never considered it a "job", we were always a "family"! Wolf
There was a horne 4 x 2 manifold at LARS on the weekend for $2k. Not sure what it fit, it was one of those staggered ones like on the red roadster above (sorry, i'm not familiar with them!!)
Got my dirty grubs on a hemi horne intake, now i just need to find a y-block horne.....anyone know of one for sale? JEFF
My first post here, so bare with me. I have a Horne early Hemi intake with 4 in line strombergs. I've had it for over 30 years now. In 1980, my brother and I were at a flea market in Tinley Park, IL. We seen it there and just thought it looked cool. Bought it for $75. The seller didn't know anything about it. He thought it might be for a Pontiac. Well, it was no Pontiac intake. I didn't know what it was for until I picked up an old fuel 392 from my dads friend (Chris Karamesines). Does anyone know what these intakes are good for? What year is this intake? How many were made? Thanks, tony
Titus, Congrats on starting this thread on Horne intakes. I would love to get a Y-Block intake . . . . . . . Dave
Tony, i love hearing about the prices stuff was bought for long ago when it was not as sought after. the intakes were i think basically all out racing but a guy that can tune can make em run on the streed fine, ive done some 4x2 set ups and 6x2 set ups and it just depends on carb sizes, how built the motor is etc etc. the intakes were made in 1955 only, one year. no one really knows how many are made, Jot says 100, 25 hemi, 25 cadi, 25 olds and 25 y-block, it seems like olds are the easiest to find, cadi then hemi, then y-block being the hardest, i know of one. If ones on ebay i know who ill be bidding agains!
Thanks for the info. Only made for one year is really odd. And only 25 made is ultra rare. I will post some pictures later today.
lets put this back to the top, so far our count is at 6 olds, 5 cadi, 3 hemi and 1 y-block, anyone else have one?
I know a Cali based Kiwi with at least a couple Olds and Cadi, I remember seeing 4 or so in total but at least one was a Cragar.
it also said he made other parts besides the blower and carbureted intakes like blower tops, I have never seen one, does anyone have a picture of one? or better yet, the real deal?
Ive seen pic of the blower top plate, it was a 4bbl to 471 (maybe 3-71, maybe both) it looked just like the Cragar version, the logo was at the rear of the plate and it had fins at the front, but it had the horne logo instead of the cragar of course, ill try and look for it but i dont remember where i seen it. jeff
heres a really crappy scan that i had saved in my pics, maybe someones got the catolog and could rescan it and blow it up, its the cragar on on the right, but it would have the horne logo, thats the one i seen, i think it was in an old little pages.
Ok now 19 out of 100! I have this Olds 4x2. So now I am trying to see if it will fit the 324 Olds ... This is a 324 intake gasket and the ports look to be the wrong size. Also if they were made only 1 year, then were any 1956 324 Olds intakes ever made? Is there any way to adapt this to a 324 ?
far as I know Horne Olds only came in the little 303 port size. gotta go Cragar to get the 324 port size just me but, I would use 303 heads on the 324 block before I would modify the Horne manifold
what I was trying to say was I would not be surprised if the now 19% of the original manifolds we see here represent half of all that remain. didn't come out any clearer did it?
i had this late horne intake for hemi, no name and not grinded off, was told it is when he sold out to cragar and was in-between casting with no name. sold it after getting a weiand dragstar 8x2 .
I think you already had a post going about your intake and im still sticking with its a early cragar, none of the horne hemi intakes have the tall bolt bosses like yours does. jeff
This is really interesting...I'll keep my eyes open, I've probably seen them before and never thought twice about them...
Thanks for the info Paul! I might try and locate some 303 heads. It would be cool to get this back in operation.
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