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Great sets of early and mid-1900's Toronto pics! Thanks for posting them!' A question - can anybody identify the make and year of this crashed...
To go along with that OHC-6, a T5 5-speed stick would be sweet too and would be an easy fit.. Mart3406 ===================
You want tough?? A lot of dirt-track modifieds still run '60's-vintage 3/4 or 1 ton International truck spindles due their strength. You can...
Ol' Henry will be spinning in his grave for sure, but I'm digging your choice of a Pontiac OHC-6 with triple Webers!! Really digging it!!...
Yep, I know what you mean. But speaking of "barn finds"....here's a barn I found recently. It turned oit that it wasn't for sale (sadly,...
Ditto on that! By the sum and mix of exottic, date-coded experimental and OEM CM parts and the profeshional quality of the fabrication...
Well..just make sure to get an old, "traditional-style" GPS and nobody here will complain. :D Mart3406 ===============
Then they'll add "using your cell phone while driving" to the list of violations!! :( Mart3406 ================
That's what I was thinking too, but couldn't confirm it. If so, I think that leads yet more credence to this being one of the GM experimental...
----------- If the valves were off their seats, there wouldnt be suction on the exhaust side. Mart3406 =================
----------------- Which seem entirely arbitrary, because there are numerous threads here involving early bodies on later model frames. A couple...
A bunch of years ago, I bought an off-topic SBF V8-powered '71 Pinto on-line, more or less sight-unseen from a guy in Portland Oregon. I took a...
Ditto on that! LOL!! :D Mart3406 ------------------------ P.S. Considering their agricultural and 'manure spreader' origins, maybe they'd also...
Yep...the 153 Chevy II side cover gasket is the same piece as the 181 GM Industrial and Mercruiser side cover gasket. An industrial engine...
Hmm?? I was thinking from the front end design and grill shape, maybe a "one-off", factory prototype or concept car for a proposed, but...
Considering the 1959 cast-date alluminum block and heads and all the other extremely well fabricated pieces, I really think so! I'm wondering...
----------- All the Chrysler industrial engines I've ever seen were standard rotation, but with Chrysler, anything is possible. If some, even...
------------------- Farm implement wheels of some sort. They're spindle mount wheels so you couldn't run front brakes with them. They'd look...
Nope...no '67 Trans-Ams . Therefore, It must be a 'one-off", "one-of-one-never -built", "double-super-ultra-extra-rare" factory experimental...
----------- Another tidbit - the 261 Canadian Pontiac passenger car engines had a bit hotter cam that was roughly the same grind as the...
NO....at least, not unless you also plan on running a' total loss' cooling system with long suction hose leading to lake or river for a...
Lot's of 'old timey' colors and paint codes here: http://paintref.com/cgi-bin/colorcodedisplay.cgi?year=1930&manuf=Ford&rows=50 Mart3406...
An automotive cam installed 180 degrees out of synch....or you've got a reverse-ground cam intended for a reverse-rotation marine...
Young'uns....sheesh!!! Mart3406 ===============
-------------- Yeah....and that's *DEFINITELY NOT* Jennifer standing there beside him!!!:eek::eek: Mart3406 =============
---------------- I'm just guessing, but the use of a single-bbl. side draft carb, rather than a two-bbl Weber that the manifold appears to have...
----------------- No way. Speedy Bill already has way too much cool stuff. Better to send it to me for preservation, hoarding and...
What wheels and what size tires are on the car as it is in the pics? I'm thinking that a cool combination might be 19 inch Model A fronts,...
Some miscellaneous "cool old pics" . Enjoy! :) - Mart3406 =============================
Very cool find! Any pics of the Scintilla Vertex mag?? Were they an OEM piece for the industrial versions of G28T? Mart3406 =========
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