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I like that too. I like the blower whine better, for entirely different reasons.

No matter, you hear either of the 3 sounds, and you know it's serious business.

Well, I'm glad you knew what I meant. It is a great sound, and can't be reproduced by custom exhaust, just Mopar HP.

Yep, and coming out of a 4" exhaust the had single chamber mufflers coming out of those terantula style headers (came out of the inside fenderwells) it was thunderous.


I miss that car......maybe I should get another and really build it up with a 540 aluminum SC'd Hemi......

naw....get something fast.

That would be sweet.

I like those headers, but I'm glad I don't know how to make them. they look like they could give a guy fits. They can't be all that easy to install either.

If race cars count, I built this streamliner with a friend.





He's run many different engines, the first time out he ran a 300 cu/in chevy and set a two way average of 304mph with the fastest time through the last mile 330 mph. I've lost track of how many classes he's set records with Nebulous III.

While one of the slower engines he's run, this flathead with the custom aluminum heads and exhaust out the top is one of the coolest looking mills he's had in the car.

That thing is awesome...heck yeah race cars count.

race cars count specially when they are that cool.Thanx for posting pics

I really dig the crazy flathead, wow that's cool!!

One would look pretty sweet in the Chevy truck you have dave... just sayin'.

Nothing like the sound of a flat head either, or a Y-block for that matter.

(yoda voice)

confused by these words I am... chevy truck?



I aint got no chevy trucks layin round here man!!

i do have a 51 ford tho & it does have a flathead in it.

Wow, that isn't nice to call Tom a flathead!

I've posted pics of the truck before; '78 F150 4x4 warmed 351M/C6. It's due for another minor resto. I also have an '88 Suburban in the shop I've owned since near new. Hard to believe it's already 22 years old.

I don't have any pics yet because it's a work in progress, but I'm presently restoring a '69 GTO convertible, 400 RA3 stroked to 468, 4.11 12 bolt, B&M TH400. Found it in a barn west of here, most of the work is mechanical. Good body needs a top, some minor ding/dent straightening, and a paint job. Arrest-me red. Been a Poncho driver for 35 years, my first car was a tri-power '65 GTO, have had a bunch of Goats, Birds, GP's, even a couple of Judges. Wishin' I had all of them back.

The 32 year old truck



Hope hot boats count as hot rods- I got out of screwing around with cars for a while, mainly because I inspected aircraft for a living and was pretty burned out on wrenching at home. Found a little time to put together a couple of offshores with small blocks that I ran up the Mississippi, Lake Michigan and Huron, and in the Atlantic in the area of Pompano Beach.
My hair isn't on fire anymore, although I miss the sound of a pair of engines breathing behind me out of four-inch exhausts. We might get the urge again.....

Formula 242, pair of stroked small-blocks I built with the help of my local machinist and the advice of various experts in the HP marine biz..



Formula engines



Our Active Thunder, at a friend's house in Pompano Beach- twin 350MPI's.
Believe it or not, we had a LOT less invested in these boats than a lot of guys have in their bass/fishing boats.



Glad we got rid of them when we did; it's been 5 or 6 years now. This is not the economy to own such things. Nothing depreciates like a boat. Cars are a much safer bet.
We have an old cruiser we putt up and down the Mississippi with; I bought it off of eBay for less than 3 grand from Bart Starr's Rawhide Boys Ranch outside of Appleton, WI. Good charity for a good cause. We're still on the water, just at a more sane pace.
Jim

sorry...I was thinking you had an old chebby truck sitting around there.

Sweet boats!

Me loves some fast boats......

I want a Fountain like nobody's business.

Here's one you'd like. Don't know much about it other than it has 2 FI Chevy Big Block 500's.

They pulled up to a bar on the lake where we were "fishin".

35' long.

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out of the bay in the background I caught a 45" musky a few months before.

Since you guys liked the flathead









I think he's on land speed record vehicle 7, he's also built a lakester (wheels outside the body) and some motorcycles. I really like the small motorcycle liner 5050. I don't recall all the speeds but going 170 mph with a 125cc engine is impressive.





Somewhere I have some pics of my kids stuffed in it, we'd gone to visit family and managed to swing by Jacks on the trip. Somehow we showed up on his 72nd b-day and all went out to dinner. He's a memorable guy for sure.

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friggin' awesome!

he looks like a cat that would build a hopped up flatty.

awesome on many levels.