Ummm...Thats not a 426 Hemi...

This was just posted on Craigslist....I would call but I have to go somewhere tonight with my GF`s family.

Doesn`t look like a 426 to me....

http://chicago.craigslist.org/sox/pts/481160754.html

 

looks like a part of the 331 family baby hemi its worth the money though

 

Looks like an additional set of valve covers, too. Easily worth the $200 on their own.

 

Getting rid of the Hemi so he can put a buick engine in a Mopar. WTF is wrong with people?

 

I ask the same question when i see people with 350 Chevys in EVERYTHING !

Wish i was closer, The hemi would be on the back of my '55 Flatbed on the way home...

 

I ask the same question when i see people with 350 Chevys in EVERYTHING !
Ditto man, spend some extra money and run something that is made by the same company as your car. I have said it before and think the only excuse to do that is if you are building something rare and can't build a motor for it, like an Es***.

 

I,d be on that in a second....

 

I got rid of a Hemi and went to an Olds motor...

 

some peoples junk is our "treasures" my precious

 

Dude soo true i hate how everything is chevy this chevy that thats one reason i bought a dodge it's different it's not something you see everyday.

 

lol....same guy has a `70 Buick Skylark listed on there aswell....

 

With his logic he should just put the Hemi in the Skylark and sell as a package. LOL

 

In what?

 

I just called the # and the guy said the add is not legitimate and he is with the sherrifs department there is a scan on the call etc. I wish people would please quit calling.LOL

 

Model A Roadster... !

The Hemi I was going to use would've cost about $2,800 to get it running right... !

So I opted for a rebuilt 455 Olds (468) with Dual Quad, rebuilt turbo 400, aluminum driveshaft Quickchange rear, Superbell 4" dropped front end with split wishbones for the less than the cost of that Hemi rebuild...!

I still run Hemi's... but I only see them in my rear view mirror...!

 

Hard to argue with all the cool **** you got for less than the price of the rebuild. To bad you could not have all that stuff and a 429 or 460 but.......

 

Wonder why it has not been flagged and removed then.

You just called and cant pick it up till the mourning and your trying to put us off.

 

Yeah what the hell is wrong with people using any old engine they feel like using, it's an abomination to put a chevy in a ford or a pontiac in a dodge or an olds in a pontiac, or a cadillac in a studebaker. That's just wrong, it was never done before and shouldn't be done now, I think they call those guys hot rodders or something, they should all be rounded up and shot!
Hell I saw a guy one time who actually lowered his roof, can you imagine, he didn't leave it the way the factory intended it to be, it's total chaos out there, when's it gonna stop!!!

 

Is that sarcasm there roddinron? I just get tired of seeing 350 Chevys in every car made. I know they are cheap and reliable but come on.

 

Preach it, brother!!!!!

 

Yeah, but that's not what you said, you said "Ditto man, spend some extra money and run something that is made by the same company as your car."
I think that's just as boring as seeing a Chevy in everything. Why should people be restricted to using an engine from the same company that built the car. Think how boring it would be if every old hot rod, which are predominantly Fords (pre 49), ran a ford, hell there's nothing wrong with it, but it would get boring.
I'll bet everyone who looks at your falcon expects to see a Ford in it, just think how it would shake them up if they looked under the hood and saw say, a pontiac, or a chrysler, or something, and yes, even to a lesser extent, a chevy.
I just think it's ironic that you say you're sick of seeing chevy's transplanted into everything and then say you should see a Ford in every Ford, that to me, takes even less imagination, but to each his own.
Not pickin' on you, I just hear this argument all the time and it's kind of a pet peave of mine, run what you want, that's what Hot Rods are all about.
Oh, and as boring as Chevys may be, they make the most sense in a lot of cars, and a lot of cars would take a lot longer to finish and enjoy if the average guy had to come up with the extra scratch to build a Hemi or Nailhead etc. and suitable ******. And lets face it, when you put your foot down on the loud pedal, a well built chevy becomes a lot less boring. I'm not about to turn my back on a winner just because it's a winner.

 

Well damn, what can I say to that? Good points roddinrod.

 

I heard a good one the other day...

A guy looks over to his next door neighbor and asks him what's he doing???

And he said I'm putting a Ford engine in my 57 Plymouth...

and the guy said why a Ford engine...?

And the neighbor exclaimed... because I blew up the Olds Engine...!

 

I put a 350 in your grandma. It sure was cheap and she goes like hell now.

 

I feel the same. It's a sin against the natural order of things. The Creator meant for civilized and religious men and women to be encapsulated in the stately conveyances of refinement and taste in order to indicate one's social standing and prominence. If these renegades are permitted to modify their "cars" or paint them in bright colors the next step will be cl*** mixing and other barbarousness and we just can't have that.

Ahem, I say, ahem.

 

hahahaha...i know i don't post much, but i love y'alls' (that's proper texan) sarcasm. why in the hell would want to build a car that is cost effective, dependable and powerful. that just doesn't make any sense to me. However, i do make more money than your wife can spend. I'll never run a 350/350. I'll stick w/ my 350/glide-even harder to tear up and cheaper. I'll quit talking trash w/ the rest of everybody and go back to lurking now. Talk to y'all in a couple of months when I get the time to sign on again.

 

With "all due respect" Roddinron that's a nice "opinion" you have there. But there are certainly two sides to every coin. In fact I see a completely different way and I'm SURE I'm right about this. When the tables are even, and the Chevy people sit by happily while 80% of their cl***ic iron is running Ford power then I'll change my mind. Oh you don't think there is a rivalry between the Big Three? Check out the NASCAR budgets that they are spending to beat the **** out of each other on a weekly basis. They very much want their "brand" to be ***ociated with success. Examples of this permeate the auto business,..... another cl***ic....." who's pickup truck is the toughest" and each will tell you how their own is.

I've posted this before but this is an example of the mentality of the decision makers in the backrooms of the auto manufacturers. There is most certainly a feeling of friendly and maybe even not so friendly rivalries going on from the beginning to the present day. I worked at the dealership level for 25 years and I know for a fact that there is compe***ion to be the best and to get the word out about it. Toyota being the most successful with their present image I would say. Here is a letter from Zora Arkus Duntov to Chevy management written in late `53 imploring them to act wisely and take the steps neccessary to insure the success of their new little V8..........


“THOUGHTS PERTAINING TO YOUTH, HOT RODDERS, AND CHEVROLET”
The Hot Rod movement and interest in things connected with hop-up and speed is still growing. As an indication: the publications devoted to hot rodding and hop-upping, of which some half dozen have a very large circulation and are distributed nationally, did not exist some six years ago.


From cover to cover, they are full of Fords. This is not surprising that the majority of hot rodders are eating, sleeping, and dreaming modified Fords. They know Ford parts from stern to stern better than Ford people themselves.

A young man buying a magazine for the first time immediatly becomes introduced to Ford. It is reasonable to ***ume that when hot rodders or hot rod-influenced persons buy transportation, they buy Fords. As they progress in age and income, they graduate from jalopies to second-hand Fords, then to new Fords.

Should we consider that it would be desirable to make these youths Chevrolet-minded? I think that we are in a position to carry out a successful attempt. However, there are many factors againt us:


Loyalty and experience with Ford.
Hop-up industry is geared with Ford.
Law of number-thousands are and will be working on Fords for active compe***ion.
Appearance of Ford’s overhead V8, now one year ahead of us.

When a superior line of GM V8’s appeared, there where remarkably few attempts to develop these, and none too successful. Also, the appearance of the V8’s Chrysler was met with reluctance even though the success of Ardun-Fords conditioned them to the acceptance of Firepower.

This year is the first one in which isolated Chrysler development met with succsess. The Bonneville records are divided between Ardun-Fords and Chryslers.

Like all people, hot rodders are attracted by novelty. However, bitter experience has taught them that new development is costly and long, and therefore they are extremely conservative. From my observation, it takes an advanced hot rodder some three years to stumble toward the successful development of a new design. Overhead Fords will be in this stable between 1956 and 1957.

The slide rule potential of our RPO V8 engine is extremely high, but to let things run their natural course will put us one year behind-and then not too many hot rodders will pick Chevrolet for development. One factor which can largely overcome this handicap would be the availability of ready-enginered parts for higher output:

If the use of the Chevrolet engine would be made easy and the very first attempts would be crowned with succsess, the appeal of the new RPO V8 engine will take hold and not have the stigma of expensiveness like the Cadillac or Chrysler, and a swing to Chevrolet may be anticipated.This means the development of a range of special parts-camshafts, valves, springs, manifolds, pistons, and such-should be made available to the public.

To make good in this field, the RPO parts must pertain not only to the engine but to the ch***is coponents as well. In fact, the use of light alloys and brake development, such as composite drums and discs, are already on the agenda of the Research and Development group.

These thoughts are offered for what they are worth-one man’s thinking aloud on the subject.

Signed: Z. Arkus-Duntov

dated: 12/16/53







You don't think Chevy people think of their products a Chevrolets??? Well there are certainly people that think of Fords as Fords as well. If you showed me a `39 Ford with a broken Flatty and asked me to help, it would not even occur to me to scrounge around for a V8 from a different manufacturer. I would suggest rebuilding the Flatty or updating to an OHV from Ford's own ****nal. Is'nt the "heart" of the vehicle a big part of what makes it what it is? "Course this is just me and a few other like minded individuals. The whole damn "hotrodding" world is expressing their questionable "INDIVIDUALISM" by doing the same damn thing over and over till one day there will be no true Ford cl***ics left I'm sure. They are dropping like flies as we speak. Hmmm??? I wonder if the Harley crowd ever thinks that the "V" Twin is boring and that there should be more Honda and Yamaha powered Road Kings and Fat Boys?? Nonsense I tell you.......

 

WTF

 

Also some great points Henry Floored.

 

Belly****on this.....dime a dozen that.
Ya'll must be the same folks running around w/ a Calvin ******* on a whatever sticker on your cars.
The Chevrolet is a fine engine, you've heard the arguments before. It goes.....cheap blah blah....reliable blah blah.....find parts in the middle of nowhere blah blah.
Everybody runs one & that makes you a hater? I look around & I see lots of whitewalls. Does that make you hate? Red wheels, hate? **** tons of 97's, hate? Red fuel line, hate? Ford 9" make ya hate?
I remember back in high school when we were all getting our 1st cars. So many of the kids were always arguing the "Ford vs. Chevy thing".
I figure they probably learned to bicker about useless **** from their dunderheaded parents & from each other. Instead of finding the good in things, they learn to hate, complain, & ***** about stupid ****. What a waste of time & energy.
What grade are you people in? I look at you profiles, & some of you are older than me. Grow up already.