I was reading old Hop Up and saw some interesting engines. One was a Ranger 6 in a roadster and I saw a couple Marmon V 16s, one in a early 50s Caddy conv. called the Marcad. Anyone have more pics of these? How about early race cars with Liberty engines?
Willowbilly3 Kind of OT. My uncle built a modified with a marmon in it when he was a kid. Says the only thing he remembers after letting go of the tow rope and hitting the ignition switch was a loud noise and being upside down in the ditch with the monster on top of him. I have heard that story so many times but I still laugh each time. Guys, if you have dads, uncles etc that were hot rodders in the day, sit down and get them to tell you the stories, some of it will be bull, but it all will be worth listening to. Sorry to steal the post! Neal
How about a 1915 or so WW1 OX-5 Aircraft engine out of a Jenny...I went for a ride in this one last year out at a fly in at the Old Kingsbury Aerodrome(lots of biplanes at this one)...the thing went like stink, very impressive!!! Skot
Here's a Ranger powered sprint car owned by a Mr. Cunningham from Des Moines. 440 cu. in. aluminum inline 6 that weighs less than 300 lbs......mounted backwards and upside-down from what it was in an airplane.
I recently turned up a 1929 vintage airplane catalog--they were still running mostly WWI vintage surplus stuff! Complete parts lists and pics of OX-5 and Hispano-Suiza V8's, absolutely everything from new complete engines to rebuilts and parts, and they still had Jennies and Canucks for sale NEW and in various rebuilt states! Those V8's are fairly compsct and would easily adapt into Chitty Chitty type speedsters. They were also selling aluminum Aero wheel discs, clearly ripped off directly from Kevin's design...he needs to sic a lawyer on those people. If I remember correctly, complete planes ran roughly $1,000--$2,500, depending on how much was new, and they even sold pre-fab hangers. We need to get some of our outside-the-box tech thinkers working on a time machine...Lars??
I was reading the builup in the old Hop-up this morning and it said they paid $100 for the complete PT-19 plane and used the engine and seat the trashed the rest of the plane. That sprint car with the V8 is awesome. I remember when I was about 8 or 9 our cl*** went to the Indian museum in Rapid City and my teacher had to literally tear me away from that V8 Hispo engine from Clyde Ice's first plane.
Yea and the hot oil blowback from the exposed rockers has got to be a blast also. Glenn Curtiss of Motorcycle and airplane fame was my grandmother's uncle. My father's sister has some old pictures of some of Glenn's stuff in a s**** book somewhere.
Rebuilt Ranger engine forsale, shipping might be a bit dicey as the price is listed isn Pounds Sterling...... http://www.skysportengineering.co.uk/for_sale.htm
"Yea and the hot oil blowback from the exposed rockers has got to be a blast also" I've read that racers and pilots used to s***ch a powder puff to the backs of their gloves for wiping oil off of their goggle--or at least rearranging the oil. Goggle cleaning was also supposedly the reason for the scarves worn by WWI pilots, and copied in Vietnam as a affectation by our AD ("Spad")pilots.
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