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03-23-2012, 09:26 AM
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Miss America VIII
 The pursuit of the "land" speed record on water is the kind of thing only a crazy man participates in. It would be like heading to North Korea with construction plans for a Liberty Statue tucked tightly under your arm... Only, your odds of survival o... To read the rest of this blog entry from The Jalopy Journal, click here. |
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03-23-2012, 09:32 AM
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Old School HAMBer
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Location: AUSTIN TEXAS
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Re: Miss America VIII
Those pipes!
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03-23-2012, 09:36 AM
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Location: Fiddy's House
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Re: Miss America VIII
not one miller engine, but TWIN blown v-16's?
took my breath away |
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03-23-2012, 09:38 AM
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Location: Auburn Hills, MI USA
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Re: Miss America VIII
1100 cubic inches at 6000+ RPM and straight pipes....I sure hope we can hear that melodious monster soon !!
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03-23-2012, 09:38 AM
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Re: Miss America VIII
Did you notice the Holley carbs? Harry is turning over right now...
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03-23-2012, 09:46 AM
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Location: Bay City, MI
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Re: Miss America VIII
Gar Wood's stuff is really interesting - and there's a huge history of boat racing on the Detroit River. In fact, one of the reasons the auto industry grew up in Detroit has to do with the boat-building industry already there. Michigan has lousy coal for use in marine engines, so gasoline engines became the standard. With that tribal knowledge already in place, it wasn't a huge step to start building road-going vehicles
I also can't help but wonder if some young man in Detroit in the mid- to late-1920s was inspired to fit a Vee'd windshield to his gow because of Gar Wood and his cohorts. -Dave
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03-23-2012, 09:47 AM
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Re: Miss America VIII
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-Dave
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03-23-2012, 09:48 AM
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Re: Miss America VIII
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03-23-2012, 09:50 AM
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Re: Miss America VIII
Cool video.... I should get pics cause you guys won't believe me, but we were cleaning the shop the other day and dragged an aluminium V-16 block and heads down from the rafters... Those things are BIG!
Here's a link to a small page about the V-16 Caddy powered, '32 framed, 23 Dodge our founder picked up in the 50's. http://blakemachineprojects.com/V16PageOne.html
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03-23-2012, 09:57 AM
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Re: Miss America VIII
Thank you Ryan. Thank you.
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03-23-2012, 09:59 AM
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Re: Miss America VIII
Incredible engineering and beauty.
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03-23-2012, 10:03 AM
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Re: Miss America VIII
Gar Wood was an unbelievable talent. I have one of his boats, a 1946 Ensign. There's nothing like the thunder of those big engines in boats. I love to hear the Libertys, just rock the air when they are fired up.
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03-23-2012, 10:06 AM
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Location: London, UK
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Re: Miss America VIII
Enough with the pre-sale drivel, fire the dam thing up!
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03-23-2012, 10:10 AM
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Re: Miss America VIII
Very cool! Thanks for sharing that.
400,000 to upwards of 1,000,000 showing up to watch the race... I can't help but feel that something is missing from our society today.
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03-23-2012, 10:13 AM
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Re: Miss America VIII
Great story , he says they pulled the Miller's before the race because of a failure and put the Packard's back in . Then later he says #8 is the only Miss America with the original engines that it was raced with ?
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03-23-2012, 10:17 AM
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Re: Miss America VIII
got to $700k at auction, it didnt meet the reserve...
Hows about just a little audio of those Packard motors?? Cool...
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03-23-2012, 10:31 AM
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Re: Miss America VIII
Heres another little Gar Wood thingy that brings his boating career "closer" to hot rodding (sorta)
How many of you have or have had an early ford big truck with a dump body? One of these was probably riveted to the dump box! This is off my '35 big truck.
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03-23-2012, 11:02 AM
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Re: Miss America VIII
2 charged v-16's; 1800 HP with zoomies....that made my day
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03-23-2012, 11:09 AM
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Re: Miss America VIII
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yeah I saw that too...not sure how I feel about it, on one hand it probably has more power and is easier to tune, but on the other hand the only point of a boat like this is to be restored and correct |
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03-23-2012, 11:53 AM
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Re: Miss America VIII
Front engine boat... awesome
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