Blown flathead that turned a bridge....

This would make a nice conversation piece in a rod...

and cheap. So far...

Ebay blown flathead

 

The price just doubled, still sound like a bargain, btt

 

With 2 days to go I imagine the sellers wil be well surprised....

 

cool. i remember in rod n custom or some other magazine awhile back they found a flathead ontop of building that had been used to run a generator.

 

Think I recall about a year ago on here, an "industrial" Hemi on a roof or up a tower that used to run an air raid siren!
Here's a pic. (Love Google "Images")



They REALLY wanted everyone's attention!!!

Still remember them testing those suckers in the early sixties (sirens, not Hemis), made you shiver. Real creepy. That, and the "Conelrad" alert, on the radio. Showing my age....(50).

Dunno WHO "won" the cold war, just glad that my 12 year old daughter doesn't even know what the fuck I'm talking about when I bring this shit up.
I digress....

Nice flathead.

 

At the Garlits museum there is an industrial hemi engine that Don removed from a downtown Tampa (I believe) skyscraper that powered an air raid siren. It was removed some years back and the Swamp Rat himself was offered the artifact of the cold war.

Frank

 

I have a 38 or 39 that I pulled out of a shed two years ago. It was used to drive a transfer pump to ship oil from one lease to another. "FREEBIE" and we used a backhoe as an engine hoist.

 

Hell we still had air raid siren tests up until the late 70s in Miami. Every Monday at noon - could hear it for miles.

I remember the EBS tests well...practically got them memorized!

 

We still have air raid siren tests the first monday of every month at middday.Man thats a creepy sound.

 

I Jr. High, I went to the only public school in FL that is on the waterfront (intercoastal waterway) and everyday at noon, an air raid siren would sound. On top of that, an air horn would sound when the draw bridge went up.

I only went there for a few months in '78, but it was still freaky to hear it for that air raid for first time.

When I painted my house I found a little siren up under the eaves. Former owner was a HAM radio operator.

Hmmm, I wonder if the air raid siren is still on Madeira Beach?

 

99T--if the engine matches its heads, it is the prewar truck/industrial version of the '39-40 Merc engine, a very desireable piece.