Here's one that could leave you scratching your head...or at least it did me.
Page 29 of the just-arrived August 2010 Hot Rod has an engine photo of a cool 1930 Model A retro-themed rod built by a Scott Miller. The engine looked familiar at first glance, but I was immediately confused by a Cadillac-looking water pump manifold in front of a Studebaker-looking intake manifold.
Then I read the photo's caption:
"The 331ci engine came out of a 1950 Cadillac convertible.....The Edmunds intake is actually for a Studebaker, but was adapted to the Cad with spacers and runs '53 Stude sidedraft carbs with Edmunds air cleaners."
Kinda cute and funky, but I have my doubts that we'll ever be able to convince fellow hot-rodders to acknowledge that those 1953-1958 Studebaker 2bbl V-8 carburetors are actually downdraft carburetors with 90-degree air horns. BP
Page 29 of the just-arrived August 2010 Hot Rod has an engine photo of a cool 1930 Model A retro-themed rod built by a Scott Miller. The engine looked familiar at first glance, but I was immediately confused by a Cadillac-looking water pump manifold in front of a Studebaker-looking intake manifold.
Then I read the photo's caption:
"The 331ci engine came out of a 1950 Cadillac convertible.....The Edmunds intake is actually for a Studebaker, but was adapted to the Cad with spacers and runs '53 Stude sidedraft carbs with Edmunds air cleaners."
Kinda cute and funky, but I have my doubts that we'll ever be able to convince fellow hot-rodders to acknowledge that those 1953-1958 Studebaker 2bbl V-8 carburetors are actually downdraft carburetors with 90-degree air horns. BP
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