Oddball Swaps \ Not Wife Related

[G V Gordon]

Rocky's comment on the Muncie in his Porsche got me to thinking. Got nothin' better to do as it's snowing like crazy with 6-12 inches expected.
What is the strangest combination you have ever seen, or done.
Mine would be the gasser a friend of mine and I built in high school. '49 Ford tudor with a '53 Buick straight eight in it. Back four cylinders were in the front seat area. Wish I had pictures. I think of that car whenever anyone says something can't be done. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[NoSurf]

My dad and I built a modified garden tractor for pulling.

Aluminum model T frame
Johnson 40 hp outboard
Dodge Colt auto trans
Narrowed Alfa rear.

But it was geared too high, did like 90 mph in the driveway though!

[dixiedog]

Not traditional - but a friend of my sons just finished a Honda CRX on a Samuri chassis and it actually turned out pretty nice.

[Paul]

I sold a baby hemi to a guy who came to pick it up in a '67 Camaro

with a 440 Magnum in it!

he said it was fun watching the purists eyes pop out!

[colorado51]

Not trad, but back in the early 80`s I put a Olds 215 alum V8 and powerglide in a 72 Vega station wagon.

[raven]

When I was growing up, my dad built a '64 Triumph TR-4 with a 350hp 289 Ford backed by a three speed (?) that went into a narrowed Ford 9" that had 15" Buick finned drums mated to it.
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[tootallrodder]

When I was in High School a gut put together a 63 Falcon Futura with a 392 Hemi and push Botton trans. It sat at stock height. It almost looked stock until you looked under it and saw the dropped straight axle and the big honkin headers. I wish it was still around.

Another wild one was a early 50's MG roadster with a Fuel injected 401 Buick Nailhead. Looked like a Cartoon car. Ran in the street roadster class at Dover Dragway back in the 60/70's

[Fat Hack]

There's a little Chevy Monza running around here with a big block Mopar in it...

...I looked at a 74 Firebird for sale years ago that someone had dumped an AMC 360 into...

...and I'm putting a 2.8 V6 into a 49 Chevy!

We must breed 'em crazy here in Michigan!! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[flying clutchman]

i have seen a volkswagen beatle with a 392 hemi in it. the owner called it "herbie the love bug on steroids"

[mr57]

A friend of my father's put a Buick straight eight into a mid 20's Chrysler touring car. It was the eight that had two carbs and a plit exhaust. He said it went like hell, but if he spun too hard it would knock the outsides off the wood spoke wheels.

Goofiest thing I actually saw was a Ford Courier truck with a narrowed olds transaxle and 455 in the box. It had boat headers and supertrapps straight out the back. The guy had the original engine still in the front to keep the front wheels on the ground.

The there was the BIG biker chick I saw in Sturgis with a v-8 trike and what looked like my living room love seat on it. She fit the chair rather comfortably.

[4t64rd]

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I sold a baby hemi to a guy who came to pick it up in a '67 Camaro

with a 440 Magnum in it!

he said it was fun watching the purists eyes pop out!

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I got my SBC 350 out of a '68 Dodge Dart GT. Them Mopar guys don't think that stuff is funny.

[ox53]

My father has started building a 27 t-bucket and plans to put a 1200 cc harly engine in it.

[BELLM]

Not too strange but in late 70s I put a 289/ ford w C-4 in a 67 Jag XKE. Put sidepipes on it, only clue not stock. Cornered like a mofo. Wish I could have kept it. Sold when daughter # 1 came along.

[Big A]

Check out the post about the Cubans...

There's some guy around here with a BMW Isetta with 59 Impala fins grafted on.

[Creeper Larry]

not car related, but I had a yamaha YSR minibike that stock, had a 50cc 2 stroke, but I put a YZ125 engine in it. It was the fastest accelerating thing I have ever been on! Then I sold it to buy pistons for a Hemi.

[Deyomatic]

There is a guy out here with a 455 Olds in his Corvair.

[Brother Bob]

In high school I put a 455 in a AMC Gremlin with a 4 spd!
Cornered like a turd with pie cutters up front but man would she fly when you hit the button. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[hotrod54chevy]

a buddy of mine had a ' 59 edsel wagon that was lowered to 3/4 of an inch off the ground with flame throwers and he was gonna turn it into a gasser with a chevy motor till his dad sold it while he was away.
~creepy

[Rocket88]

426 Hemi in a 56 Chev hardtop.

[Molloy]

Mazda rotary engine in a VW ,hood closes.
Almost looks stock.......

Hmmmm...I've got this rotary engine and a rolling chopper
hardtail frame w/springer fork....hmmmmmmm

just need to figure out a clutch ....oh sorry maybe thats
too weird.

[Bugman]

BMW Isetta and a VW Beetle drivetrain makes one heck of a wheelie machine. 3'+ in first, 3' in second, 6" in third, all measured at the wheel while accelerating(aproximate distances)

Same guy, Golf cart and a VW drivetrain = megafast golfcart. slicks on the back because tires with tread cause megawheelies on the turf, while the slicks just spin. FORE!!


This guy's about the best barnyard engineer I've ever seen. He can make anything work with anything. One heck of a trike builder too. Cut his teeth back in the day on a blown '50 Ford, at least until he blew the bottom end out of it.

-Bugman Jeff

[Bugman]

Our current Power Mechanics shop project

One '77 Impala plus one '74 Beetle = True love forever?

-Shop Teacher Jeff

[choprods]

back in 73-4 when we were told there was a gas crisis- and gas was rationed!!!!![may as well been real]....I installed one of thos skinny wimp ass 170 cu in ford strait six motors in a 35 Ford 5 window and drove it....it got incredible mileage but you had to run the choke on it all summer it was so anemic!Im so ashamed!!!!later I regained my senses and put the 330 cu in Olds from a vista cruiser in it...now that rocked!screw the planet!!!! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif

[Barn-core]

2.8 in a '49 Chevy, sorry FatHack. Oh, and a Jaguar v12 in a corvair.

[PEDDRO]

Cad 500 in the back of a Beetle.

Fella welded the front chassis rails of the FWD Eldo into the back of the Beetle and then cut them off behind the engine.

It's on the web somewhere.....

[born2late]

My uncle and I put a Ford 428 Cobra Jet in a '50 GMC with a c-6 and a 12 bolt posi. Mercury Cougar Steering column. Painted the block etc. red. You should see the dorks at the shows trying to figure out "why that big block Chevy has the distributor in the wrong end of the block"!!! Guys a Ford mechanic and got the truck for free. Things hauls ass!!!

[Bigcheese327]

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There is a guy out here with a 455 Olds in his Corvair.

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I've heard of him! He used the transaxle and everything from a Toronado. Just think what a 500 Caddy from an Eldo would do to one of those...

[Wowcars]

Wasn't there some magazine photographer that had two SBC's in a Simca? One had a single four and the other like 3x2s or something because he couldn't afford matching intakes. The killer was the ladder rack mounted to the roof for his photo shoots!

[Mojo]

Some co-worker told me about a guy he knew when he was a kid that put a 427 chevy engine in a 49-50 chevy fastback. Not that odd, until I found out he mounted it where the passinger seat used to be. Fella told me it was pretty fast, but disappeared after a couple of years. I imagine it probably self-destructed...

[tootallrodder]

I really don't think it is too strange but my daily driver is a 1980 Volvo Bertone (chopped top coupe) with a 5.0 ford with 5 speed.

[**DONOTDELETE**]

sb Ford in a 196? Triumph

[warpigg]

i don't know where else to post this... so i'll post it here.

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A group of Cubans sails toward the Florida Straits on a modified 1959 Buick Tuesday February 3, 2004. The pilots were the same two men who tried to sail a converted 1951 Chevy flatbed truck to the U.S. last year. Nine other Cubans, including wives and children, were intercepted by the U.S Coast Guard on Tuesday Feb. 3, 2004. (AP Photo/CBS4, HO)

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[warpigg]

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[Justin B]

i've got a friend with a 49 chevy truck with a olds toronado front wheel drive set up sitting under his bed and the really weird thing is the corvair suspension in the front. rear disc front drum. differnt yes but when he punches it the thing hooks so damn hard it can pull the front wheels on street tires.

[TheRev]

OYVEY and i thought i was twisted!! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Went thru a ford v6 stage..into a 73 Mazda 808,and 808 wagon,
58 Anglia(still have it),back end of 67 beetle(still have the adapter!!) http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif,MG midget,
and SBF'D a 240Z,a 78 Volvo(short lived),a 67 Anglia(VERY short lived)windshield said aloha! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
and a Mazda rotary in 57 MG for a friend(that one was fun!)
Had another friend that put a 500 Caddy into a 68 Olds(EEEE)
The 70's were good to me!! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[NortonG]

A 500 Cadi in a Pontiac Feiro. The engine was still in the rear. Some guy was selling kits to do it at a local show.

[disastron13]

270 Offy in a Triumph TR6- seen in Chicago in about 1979.
I've been waiting for days for the wife part of this post to start!

[Morrisman]

What about this puppy?
The wife had just crawled out of bed wandering what the noise was when I fired it up.

[Morrisman]

Nor car related, not built by me, but pretty radical all the same.
And they are built and ridden in Thailand!

[Morrisman]

How about this one,sorry, but again not car related, but with a 5 litre V twin it might have a slight appeal to some of you guys http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
The motor is the front two cylinders off the front of a V12 Merlin aero engine, 24 litres of it. And he dropped a blower on the top too!

[dixiedog]

The guy I bought a rolling chassis from a 46 ford four door was putting the body on a 80's Toronado FWD.

Also a local neck has a 65 Falcon Ranchero on a 4x4 chassis with Swampers - oooo eeeee!!!

[Rocknrod]

I've got some friends dropping an Rx7 engine into a triumph spitfire... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif