The "this is just wrong" thread

The Pope wanted a 40 Chevrolet…….and he got one!

 

One. Hell of a “donk”!

 

Looks like an improvement to me!

 

Vette with flat head?!?

 

Well, the 1978 Corvette had either 185 or 220 horsepower from the factory. So probably a downgrade there!
Extra points for leaving it rusty!

 

I'd have put a 300 six in the thing.

 

GMC or Stovebolt?

 

...looks like the results of a drunken one night stand between the Batmobile and Monkeemobile.

 

Underhood patina: Check!

 

Looks like it's wrapped in a giant flour tortilla.

 

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For a lot of years they were POS’s so seeing them like this will never bring a tear to my eye!

 

^ Maybe I'm whacky, but there is potential here.

 

I kinda like it, but would have to lose the “hood ornament”…

 

This I like...

 

Surely you can’t be serious?

 

He is serious. And don’t call him Shirley.

 

Yeah, what he^^^^^sez!...

 

Aaaahhhh , what is it ??

 

A flathead Lincoln V8 hooked up to the crankshaft of the stripped flathead Ford V8 which will still turn the original gearbox in the truck.

 

It’s a Cadillac flathead with a Hydramatic transmission.
Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

 

But it is a cool Rube Goldberg way to adapt a transmission to a different engine.

 

Eeeeeerily familiar!

 

I'd like to see the rest of that. Looks like a home made log jammer truck. Those guys got real creative with junk they had laying around to get the job done.

 

What do you do when you lift things that are too heavy at the rear? Add a counterbalance to the front. He probably doubled the weight the boom could pick up.

 

Must have been a beach to try and steer at slow speeds. Don't see any heavy lift cables or winch rig on it. How long before the flathead crank bearings run dry on the stripped ford engine. Looks like the Caddy and hydro had been set up as a sled power unit for some reason and was later put on the front of the truck as a quick and dirty re-power stunt. Way back in the 1960's I saw several Caddy and hydro sled power units built up to run a drive shaft over to water wells in the Indio Ca. date farms. The power sled was drug around from well to well and the fly in the air drive shaft were attached between the hydro and the 90deg well pump head. Hydros made for an easy setup, just pull the throttle and set the rpm. Let it go.