Are you an old time mechanic?

[Joe G.]

This is just a guess. Was it Rover? The first Land Rovers used Jeep chassis.

 

[DGamelin]

No not Rover.

 

[DGamelin]

Was the blue flame 6 in the early 50's chevy pickup truck. I think the 53 corvette had the blue flame engine in it with three carbs put on it to spice it up.

 

[MickeyMiller]

Joe George,

When I was in high school in the early '60's (running a '40 Ford delux Coupe, w '39 floor shift trans, '48 truck engine w Edmonds heads and 3 duce manifold, and 16" model B spoke wheels) the terror from a couple of towns over was a '37 Chevy coupe w a GMC 6 and Wayne 12 port head and 3 duces... a REAL FAST CAR! I was in Wickford RI... I think the Chevy was from Warwick.

 

[KevinSmith]

What is the correct term for a bunch of car geeks?

Motorhead/Gearhead/Knuckle dragger

 

[KevinSmith]

How many brands have legally been able to use the name Hemi? Dodge,DeSoto,Chrysler,Ford,Monteverdi,Jeep

I'll help. We are talking about who could legally put the name on their cars. Remember the name was trademarked. (Not Ford, Who is Monteverdi?)

What was the first Ford available with 4wd? 1936 half track ( Marmon-Herrington conversion)

Nope, not old enough.

What vehicle did the "Blue Flame Six" come in? The Chevrolet 210

Nope

I'm just guessing here but, the model T was in production during WW1. It seems reasonable to guess that this model may have been the first ford 4wd. Looking at what pictures I could find of ealier models none appeared to be 4wd



Monteverdi

Monteverdi



Blue Flame Six - 1953-1955 C-1 Corvette and in was in front of a 2-speed Powerglide automatic Thanks Wikipedia!



What was the first car to have safety glass in the windshield?

 

[Dl5treez]

In World War II, the willys jeep contracted a foreign company to build them.

What country?
What company built them?
What year?

Mitsubishi built Jeeps in Japan starting in 1953 for Willys and ended in 1998 for Chrysler.

I had to look up the exact dates (cheater!), but FWIW Mitsu built around 200,000 Jeeps. Here are some links for those interested:

Jeeps in Japan on The CJ3B Page

Kind of Mitsubishi Jeeps

They're actually pretty popular around the world. There are other companies building "Jeeps" to this day in various locations around the globe.

 

[DGamelin]

Didn't know that. I was thinking about a nother one.



country -India

company- Mahindra (the tractor company)

date-1945

 

[Joe G.]

Joe George,

When I was in high school in the early '60's (running a '40 Ford delux Coupe, w '39 floor shift trans, '48 truck engine w Edmonds heads and 3 duce manifold, and 16" model B spoke wheels) the terror from a couple of towns over was a '37 Chevy coupe w a GMC 6 and Wayne 12 port head and 3 duces... a REAL FAST CAR! I was in Wickford RI... I think the Chevy was from Warwick.

Yep. The Wayne head was made for Chevies and GMC six cylinder engines. The increased air flow really woke those engines up.



There was a overhead valve conversion kit made for Ford flatheads in the late '40s. Some of the engines with that kit made 300 HP. Who designed it and what did he do after he went to work for GM?

 

[DodgeWarlock]

Okay, I appear to have been beaten by my own question. The list I had was...

Chrysler, Dodge, Desoto, Fargo, Plymouth and Jeep.

It would appear that Chrysler added several european marks(including Monteverdi) to that list by selling and licensing the Hemi abroad. Ford did make some Hemi-style competition engines, but were not legally able to use the name since it was trademarked by Chrysler. I don't believe any actually made it to the street either.



On the windshield, Tucker was the first to make it pop-out to avoid the necklace of death. But, I am unsure whether he actually was the first to use safety glass.

 

[DCreed]

Ford did make some Hemi-style competition engines, but were not legally able to use the name since it was trademarked by Chrysler. I don't believe any actually made it to the street either.

Boss 429 did.

 

[Gary - K7GLD]

There was a overhead valve conversion kit made for Ford flatheads in the late '40s. Some of the engines with that kit made 300 HP. Who designed it and what did he do after he went to work for GM?

AH, good 'ol Ardun overhead valve heads - with the help of that guy called Zora Arkus Duntov, credited as "father of the Corvette", and the development and refinement of the first overhead valve small-block GM engines - ran those a lot way back, complete with the popular "Duntov" cam, which was also designed by Duntov for the Corvette.

 

[Joe G.]

A friend of mine had a '57 Vette with the two four barrel carbs and a Duntov cam. They were rated at 270 HP. The fuel injection model was rated at 285 HP. It was faster than the 270, but the 270 was quicker in a quarter mile.



Here is another one.



What was unusual about the intake manifold used on a 216 CI Chevy six?

 

[Dl5treez]

Didn't know that. I was thinking about a nother one.



country -India

company- Mahindra (the tractor company)

date-1945

That's pretty cool.

 

[DCreed]

Here is another one.



What was unusual about the intake manifold used on a 216 CI Chevy six?

cast as one piece with the head like a 200 six ford.

 

[HCannon]

How many of you have a 60 hp Ford flat head? There werent very many of them built, maybe in the years 1939 and 1940? I seen just two. I have been looking for one for all of my life and havent found one yet. They were a neet engine. They were a down scale of the 85 hp.

 

[Joe G.]

cast as one piece with the head like a 200 six ford.

The Chevy 216 didn't use gaskets. Instead there metal sleeves used to join the manifold to the head. It took some practice to learn how to get all three of them aligned so the manifold would fit up to the head.

 

[Joe G.]

How many of you have a 60 hp Ford flat head? There werent very many of them built, maybe in the years 1939 and 1940? I seen just two. I have been looking for one for all of my life and havent found one yet. They were a neet engine. They were a down scale of the 85 hp.

The 85 was quite a bit different because it used some pattents from the Cord V8. Both of them looked quite a bit alike. The 60 HP version was made from 1932 until Ford switched to the 85. I'm not sure exactly when that happened. There may have been some overlap. There was an aluminum block version of the 60HP. The garage I worked in in the 50s had one of those. It was in a midget race car before we got it. We put it in a Fiat coupe bodied hot rod and later in a boat.

 

[Gary - K7GLD]

How many of you have a 60 hp Ford flat head? There werent very many of them built, maybe in the years 1939 and 1940? I seen just two. I have been looking for one for all of my life and havent found one yet. They were a neet engine. They were a down scale of the 85 hp.

YUP - I've seen those, and they are neat - as I recall, didn't they use sheetmetal in parts of the outer waterjacket, instead of solid cast as the later and larger displacement engines?



Joe?

 

[Joe G.]

YUP - I've seen those, and they are neat - as I recall, didn't they use sheetmetal in parts of the outer waterjacket, instead of solid cast as the later and larger displacement engines?



Joe?

They were pretty scarce in the '50s so I didn't do much with them except for the one we put in the hot rod. I don't remember any sheet metal, but that doesn't mean much. CRS.