Vintage shots from days gone by!

I am looking for a "spit valve" on that thing.

 

Farmer Brown says "I'll teach them city slickers a thing or two. In 50 years this "barn find" will make me rich!"

 

i see we have the 5 major food groups here olds, plmouth chevy, etc.

 

I'd hate to have to change a spark plug on that engine when hot.

 

I don't think those headers were
actually real (or at least not ever
intended to be actually used!) I
vaguely remember seeing pics of
that car and those bizarre "headers"
'back in the day' (late '60's or early
'70's???) in one one of the car mags
- Hot Rod, Car Craft, PHR or ???, as
a bit of a spoof, to illustrate a tech
article on tuned and equal length
headers. I'm pretty sure these
headers were made up as a prop,
just for the magazine photo shoot,
rather than actually built for use.

Mart3406
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PS - Does anyone recall the circa
1960's or 70's vintage, magazine
issue and article that my increasingly
feeble, age-addled and momentarily
'caffeine deprived' (or perhaps 'caffeine
depraved'??) mind is trying to recall???
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How many of us has been in one of these pics in our lifetimes?

 

Mike:

That looks very much like my block in Chicago.

Jack

 

HEY!!! That's ME and my 1931 Dodge coupe!!!

 

Is Lums the hotdog resturant?

 

Years ago, there was a Lums on Woodward the sold hotdogs. Went there a few times, but didn't think the hot dogs were that great. My cousin and I called it "Slums".

 

I have to ask why?

 

^^^ yeah, how could you not with a name like that. "Slums"

 

The building is still here but has been a used car lot since,must not have been too great as I only remember going there once. I remember a customer coming in the shop saying something about buying into that company and must have been the one I was thinking about since I think there was only one in town,he said it was a disaster.

 

Honest Charley had a special on U-bends?

HM

 

Technically I believe the "Bundle of Snakes" referred to 180 degree headers. I first heard the reference attributed to the Ford Indy engine, but you see the concept on lots of late 60's formula cars. GT40s too.



Visually, this certainly qualifies as a bundle of something.

HM

 

Isn't that Alfred E. Newman? I bet he's worried now! Gary

 

we used to have 2 Lums in Peoria, they were open 24/7. we used to go there after drinking nights @ 3am and the place would be packed with other partiers trying to sober up before going home. the food always seemed good to me but that was- as I said, at 3 am after a drunk. good times!

 

I said the same exact thing! No doubt that is Chicago.
-Tim

 

Those rear fenders appear to have been widened. I know just how you feel about its whereabouts. Hindsight is truly 20/20, but that doesn't help us now. Hope you find it.

 

heat in winter.