In January of 1948, the SCTA Road Runners held a picnic at Santa Anita Park. Walt Rose showed up in this '27 T roadster powered by a blown '37 Cord V-8. Of course Cords were front-wheel drive, so Walt had to the run the motor backwards to get the pow... <BR><BR>To read the rest of this blog entry from The Jalopy Journal, click here.
No shit That probably was the talk of the town when he pulled in ! Awsome is all I can say ..............Oh yeah were do you come up with all of this stuff?
I knew I have been holding on to that Early 30's Chevy frame for a reason! What were the original cars that the Cord engine came from? Any pics of them?
I think if anyone wants to know what happened to that car, we'd better ask him quick. 1948 was 60 years ago. I'm just saying.
Jeffrey James, If you are really serious about a Cord engine, I have a good friend, Gail Shaw, that has made a very good living just working on Cords. (Which is pretty impressive considering that there were less than 4000 ever made!) He has a couple of engines in his shop and may be interested in selling. Check your bank account balance before you get ready to buy, they are rare so they are expensive! Rex
the one picture just teases me... any chance there are any more photos out there? cool car... real cool... are those heads chromed? or just polished up?
Rare, Indeed! I wonder if you could get some good pictures of these cord engines your buddy has? It's always nice to day dream. I love the look of that roadster.
Cords were some of the most beautiful cars ever made, too bad the transmissions wouldn't get them out of sight! The Graham Hollywood used the same body with a shorter front end, rear wheel drive. I knew a guy had one with a Y-block Ford engine in 1960. If memory serves, the Cord V8 was built by Lycoming.
I have a picture of the Roadrunners and their cars hanging above my computer signed by Walt. He was member #11, a very unusual car. They had a great bunch of roadsters....
Cool car, excellent enginuity! I always wondered though, when modifying an engine like he did, how in the heck do you get a camshaft made? Same as those flatheads with the exhaust/intake reversed. Thats the one question I haven't figured out yet.........
That's a really cool car. The engine is a Lycoming V8, I wonder if there is a truck out there with the same engine you could pick up cheap.
That's correct. Manufactured by Textron-Lycoming right in my hometown of Williamsport, PA. Somewhere I have a picture of a parade of new Cords, Auburns, and Duesenbergs (also fitted with lycoming engines) driving down 4th Street, better known as Millionare's row. I'll see if I can dig it up.
I talked to a Cord owner and a car collector about the Cord transmission. They both said it's usually the electric controls that require attention to make the Cord shift properly. If the electrics are kept in condition and adjustment the transmission apparently works quite well.
I've been sitting here wondering the same thing...BUT even if the rotation was wrong, I'll be Lycoming built the same V-8 for some rear wheel drive application, meaning a cam and distributor drive may have been easy to get off the shelf.
That is a cool car. Would be nice to see some better pictures of that motor. I'm not sure about the wind screen yet though. Might need to digest that part a bit more.
andy, having grown up in the wiliamsport area i know i have seen that photo too. I think its in a book about lyco co history.. my pal , Buzz, from salladasburg, worked at textron/lyco
http://forums.acdclub.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=3443&sid=5d31ab892023478ca079c0c40588b67e Go here for pictures of the engine/trans from a Cord. I'm veering off course a bit, again! I like the hot-rod but I also like the Cord and thought youse might wanna see the engine!