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Is that his car in the photo? If it is how have you not cloned that. That car is effing sweet It's like the precursor to what would be a hot rod. No fenders no hood, wire wheels. Pretty much a stripped down sports car

 

Yep, that was my grandfather’s teenage ride. Very early Gow Job, photo would be from about 1918 when he was 16. Even in the small towns of North Dakota kids were hot rodding their rides from the beginning …
I have thought about recreating! Would be a cool future project

 

Thanks for the offer Rusty

Appreciate the offer Rusty, but only have the engine. Unfortunately, my great-grandfather got tired of looking at the the rest of the car and gave it to neighbor who made a wagon out of it a very long time ago … I still recall how pissed my grandfather seemed recalling the story to me so many decades later … lol

 

I’m out on summer break, but will fire it up when I get back to school this fall and post a video … thanks for the interest!

 

‘59 Pontiac stroker that I haven’t fired up yet. Came out of the sister truck to my Pontiac powered ‘52 Stude pickup.
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I want that Pontiac engine for my new baby!

 

Do you have any better pictures of the headers on that Pontiac?They look really good.

 

I have misc stuff, but right now I'm looking for a Lister or "Listeroid" diesel engine to play with.

 

No photos but my 348 sat on its run stand at the ready in a corner for years. Started it now and then. Eventually I put it back into the hobby, sold it to a local guy. It's now wearing 3 three two barrels in his '55 delivery.

 

You mean these? They were built around 1963-64 by Carman Pisano of Wedge Engineering to fit this engine in a ‘49 Studebaker pickup with a Hudson front clip. Early block huggers. I would have made a couple of the transitions a little smoother but they have survived all these years in remarkable condition. The rest of the exhaust system was 3”tubing into cylindrical 3” core truck mufflers. It sounded mean!

 

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That’s one clean Pontiac! Wow.

 

That’s one pretty engine! And it would bolt in too!

 

It never did get a lot of miles put on it, but my buddy had his engine guy go through it because he wanted to put it back in the truck after he got the chassis and body restored. Unfortunately, it’s a 60s hot rod engine with some serious compression and a big solid roller cam. They tried to use thick head gaskets to drop the compression some but when they got it running again it had what my buddy described as, “a lot of valve noise”. He got talked into pulling the Pontiac and going with an LS.
Still sore in the wallet from the cost of the Pontiac (and TH2004r adapter) and the LS engine and transmission, he wanted a bunch for the old Pontiac.
It got significantly cheaper when he decided to move and he didn’t have room at his new place for it. That’s when I jumped on it. Aside from the obvious; old solid roller cams can be a little noisier than most of us are used to these days, it may have some valve train geometry problems that weren’t addressed when they added the thicker gaskets. I need to look into it before I try to run it.

 

I run the 1/3 scale smallblock at least once a year at the Hot August Nights Swap meet. this is a scratch built model in cast iron that has been running for 21 years now.


I rebuilt this 1 1/2 horse 1925 Symplex hit and miss. It had a bent rod and no rod end or governor flyweights so I cast some up and modified the trigger to fire a barbecue Piezo electric igniter. Since I don't run it very long it has held up for years.


And then I picked up this V8 60 that had been rebuilt for use in a racing boat but had sat partially assembled for about 40 years and divided between two households. It turned out to have been sleeved to stock, which I believe was the planned method, and a .010" crank and rod regrind. The distributor was trashed so I shortened a Jegs unit. It is ready to pressure lube and try a first start when I get the Ruby finished.



I have shown the 215 Buick I saved for the Ruby in the past.

 

I’ve got a few hit and miss engines, couple Maytags . Just sitting around haven’t been fired in a long time

 

I've had my fathers in-law's Fairbanks-Morris "hit & miss" engine since he died almost 40 years ago. I turn it over a couple of times and year, always silently swearing to get it running 'soon', but still haven't gotten to it. Maybe next year.....

 

Well if you ever run out of room yourself.