Abortion ENGINES ONLY Thread, come see the Horror!

[NJ John]

And it has a turbo!
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1973 standard, yellow, lowered, 3” narrowed front, 1600 blo-thru turbo w/single dell 15.4@86, so far
11.41 et buggy. Long gone
Let’s go O’s! Let’s go O’s!
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[EVfun]

[danfromsyr]

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[mukluk]

[torchwerks]

One of the reasons Ed hated 'Wishbone' was Revel didn't want to pay him to build a model of it. He also hated the way it rode. He cut it in pieces, and told Dirty Doug to throw it away. Doug stashed it away and sold it to Ed's son, Reno (that's Reno in the pic). Reno restored it, much to Ed's dismay.

My brother had a ragtop named the 'Ol Gray Mare'. Ed lettered it on the back of his Wink mirror. Ed was responsible for numerous parts on the ragtop. He had a mini junkyard in his backyard. My brother would come with a question, and Ed would send him to the backyard to grab more parts.

[EVfun]

[Da TOW'D]

[NJ John]

That custom with a “k”.
I’m more curious on the narrowed rear axles.
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1973 standard, yellow, lowered, 3” narrowed front, 1600 blo-thru turbo w/single dell 15.4@86, so far
11.41 et buggy. Long gone
Let’s go O’s! Let’s go O’s!
https://www.youtube.com/@AirSpooledGarage

[Glenn]

I like the custom zip ties on the spark plug wires
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[shanered]

I'd love to hear that thing run, and there is a temp gauge that'd be a fun experiment.

[KTPhil]

[EVfun]

"Wishbone" by Ed Roth. It's been said that he hated it.

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[NJ John]

My wife has the same problem.
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1973 standard, yellow, lowered, 3” narrowed front, 1600 blo-thru turbo w/single dell 15.4@86, so far
11.41 et buggy. Long gone
Let’s go O’s! Let’s go O’s!
https://www.youtube.com/@AirSpooledGarage

[shanered]

Nice.correction glenn....

[Glenn]

[shanered]

Poor man's deep sump and self drain oil system, also useful for finding your way home.

[oprn]

I am guessing this was done on purpose on one of those "slammed" cars to keep the edges of the oil inspection cover from catching on man hole lids on the road?

[oprn]

[FarmerBill]

At the very least it looks like they used longer studs to take advantage of all the thread in the case. I had a bay-window with an oil pump mustache bar adapter, the stock studs were holding on by about 1 twist. Guess what happened next.

[BFB]

there's even a plug underneath which means that's a big enough trailer to have lights so its not like its a small trailer you might use for say hauling leaves around your yard or something.
I wonder how much the cover flexes and how much the force of the trailer pushing forward when you stop has caused the gears to eat into the cover?
in all actuality, its probably been in use like this for over a decade
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