Any other lost millitary engines out there?

[Rocket88]

That post on the French flatheads got me thinking. Was there any other manufacturers engines that made there way into millitary service? You know like early rockets or caddy's, chevy 6's.
Could be lots of parts sitting on a shelf some where!

[Corn Fed]

Flathead Cads were used in some tanks in WWII Possibly other applications. A local guy with a restored '41 found a nos military surplus engine for that car.

[DrJ]

I've got a GA series Ford I-6 that some guys in a WW-II military veicle restorer's club told me was out of a Bura Cargo carrier. I think they only made 1500 of them. It's got an angle drive and really high mounted distributor instead of a typical Ford Crab dizzy because it was amphibious. I need two pistons for it.

[chromedRAT]

i know a guy with a few tank blowers from nam era stuff. as far as caddy engines, those were the flathead v8 type, you'll see em in M5 and M5A1 light tanks, as well as the self propelled gun series and the artillery tractor series, all on the same chassis. the M24 chaffee light tanks might be cad V8 as well, i think i remember there being one on a WWII ad i have by cadillac from WWII. for a track nosed car, or maybe a modified, the post WWII jeeps might be good sources for engines, and SOME kind of post WWII airborne vehicle had a wild V4 that i THINK was pretty hot. can't remember for sure! dammit, got CRS.

[286merc]

I remember crates of new MIL Packard V12's at a scrap yard in the late 50's. And not the bigger PT boat version either.

[tommy]

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Vince and Andy Ganatelli had one for sale in 1947. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Kinky6]

GMC made thousands of 6x6 2 1/2 ton trucks during WWII that had 270" gas engines. These became a very popular drop-in swap for '30's & '40's Chevies. They could be bored out to 292".

During Korea, GMC came out with the 302" six. With headers and a multi carb intake, these OHV engines had much better airflow that the flathead V8's.

These are the engines that the Wayne/Horning/Fisher 12 port cross-flow heads were designed for. These engines were capable of well over one HP per cubic inch in the early '50's, long before Chevy even had a smallblock V8 on the drawing boards.

The Wayne Company has been re-opened this past year, and is now making brand new 12 port heads for the GMC sixes. Patricks, in Casa Grande, AZ, still has some of the 300 military GMC 302" blocks that he bought from the Puerto Rican National Guard a few years back. So, it would be possible to re-create one of these bad-ass military surplus sixes from the early '50's using all new parts - cool, huh?

Goto www.inliners.org (http://www.inliners.org) for more info on Patrick's Automotive, Nick Zallion's Wayne Mfg. Co., and the history of the 12 port GMC's.

Later, Kinky6 http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

[SlowLearner]

Here's the one I lust after!!
Ford's GAA (Sherman) TANK engine:

http://photo.starblvd.net/~SlowLearner/2-5-1.jpg

and

http://digilander.libero.it/pmg/contributi/marco_g/gaa.jpg

Mucho pictures here: http://www.geocities.com/metalscalemodels/GAA.htm

Anybody know where there is one? Cheap?? http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

[Blownolds]

I know where there is a flathead Caddy with hydro trans sitting someplace, and attached to the block is a brass tag that says something like "U.S. Naval Dept." or some such thing. Had to be WWII stuff. Wonder which boat used that one?