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stangblue 11-07-2017 07:04 AM

Blown Flathead At Vargo Dragstrip PA
 

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At Vargo Dragstrip shut down in the 60's (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg-LQdOC0B8) Car show this last weekend i saw this Blown McColloch Supercharged Flathead (http://vs57.y-block.info/history.htm ). I seen them in magazines but not up close. Excuse my friend's finger in the picture.

texas webb 11-07-2017 10:00 AM

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Any more pictures?

RalphM 11-07-2017 10:04 AM

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Pretty cool! I wonder how it runs. Never seen one set up on a car. I didn’t know it had coolant running through it.

stangblue 11-08-2017 08:14 AM

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texas webb, sorry no more pictures my friend had taken the picture and forwarded it to me. The thing I really find interesting about Robert Paxton McCulloch an engineer is that he went from superchargers to chainsaws ( I remember those engines used in Go-Karts) and outboard motors . He ended up buying The London Bridge and shipping it to Lake Havasu, Arizona.

After all there was a second picture I originally thought it was a duplicate that was sent. Here it is !

skidmarks 11-08-2017 08:42 AM

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34 coupe? I think its been at latimore also. Car is from i thiink north jersey

stangblue 11-08-2017 11:41 AM

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I only remember the car having a 32 grille and being a 5 window??? See revised post with picture above.

Lanny 11-08-2017 12:38 PM

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It looks like a '30-'31 fire wall ;)






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40 Deluxe 11-09-2017 06:14 PM

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Originally Posted by stangblue (Post 1549561)
texas webb, sorry no more pictures my friend had taken the picture and forwarded it to me. The thing I really find interesting about Robert Paxton McCulloch an engineer is that he went from superchargers to chainsaws ( I remember those engines used in Go-Karts) and outboard motors . He ended up buying The London Bridge and shipping it to Lake Havasu, Arizona.

After all there was a second picture I originally thought it was a duplicate that was sent. Here it is !

Just a note on the "London Bridge" in Havasu. All he shipped over was the outer face, or veneer, from the original. It was too expensive (heavy) to ship all that stone so he just had thin slabs of the outer surfaces cut off and put on the bridge he built in Havasu.


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