03-10-2020, 11:51 AM | #841 |
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I found this trying to find out if those are square barrels. I loved their look on Gold Stars, e.g.
Indeed a beauty. "The engine was built in the late 40's by Australian Jim McMahan. It uses a Ford V8 (60) crankshaft and rods held in a sheet steel block that supports four Triumph/BSA cylinders and heads with two pistons each. Because the heads are of the hemi-combustion chamber design with valves on each side, there are three camshafts. One is located as a conventional Ford V8 operating the intake valves. The other two cams are on the outer sides and operate the exhaust valves. All of the cams are chain operated inside front mounted large case. Mounted to the front of the chain case in an oil pump and magneto drive. Intake manifolds are hand fabricated and mount two Stromberg Model 97 carbs. Jim raced his hand built midget engine at Southern California and San Joaqin Valley race tracks and experienced some good success for a few races. However, an accident claimed his life the wonderful engine was forgotten about for a long time. The remnats resided in LA junk yard until it was discovered by a friend of Bill Smith, founder of Speedway Motors and The Smith Collection Museum of American Speed. After many man hours of pains taking labor it has been restored to its former wonderful example of hand made engineering and is now housed in the midget race car display area of the Smith Collection. It is another illustration of how this great facility is preserving the racing heritage of years gone by." |
03-11-2020, 12:35 AM | #842 |
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Yeah, but how did he handle the .625" difference in stroke?
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03-17-2020, 12:32 AM | #843 |
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McLarens...
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03-19-2020, 11:48 PM | #844 |
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"Steel Horses"
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03-20-2020, 11:40 AM | #845 |
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Zoomed in, you can see that all the background is already plowed.
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03-20-2020, 12:02 PM | #846 |
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Considering the Dust Bowl ran 1930-35 this is deeper.
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04-02-2020, 01:36 AM | #848 |
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Now that's an iron horse...
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04-02-2020, 06:21 AM | #849 |
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That's pretty sweet. I guess Wheel Horse was natural progression.
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04-02-2020, 11:04 AM | #850 |
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It appears to be a WWI-era recruiting wagon.
What does the hand-held sign say? |
04-06-2020, 02:10 AM | #851 |
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All I can make out on the tennis racket is Are You On The...
Renault big-foot...
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04-06-2020, 12:43 PM | #852 |
I think this line's mostly filler.
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Assuming it actually works towards its purpose, that's an ingenious mechanism.
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It probably did as it had been used on early armored and artillery pieces in WW I.
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04-08-2020, 01:00 AM | #854 |
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Did you hear the one about the fast doozy and the French hooker?
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04-10-2020, 03:37 PM | #855 |
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99 wheelbases?
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