I blew it up!

[jim1932]

An eventful day today, finally got around to trying to get the car on the road. Checked the timing, spot on. Car seemed to want to flood tying to get it started...then back fired and ..OH Shit fire.... Yes we had a fire extinguisher handy and the fire was on the floor not the engine.....

Then we swapped for a brand new model A carb of a model A.... Turned it over, Nothing ,,nothing BOOM A little inspection and the picture tells what we found... That is the muffler (photo is bottom side up).... this car has run before, what the heck is going on? Timing gear?