Art & Inspiration Trivia while waiting for virus news

With this idle time, I was flipping through old magazines and discovered this. The Eddie Dye nose at the swap meet. What have you found during this crisis?

 

I found my lost shaker of salt....

 

Righteous!.....

 

OK, I'll play.
Back in the day, not very many, but a few dirt track, sprint cars, ran these engines. This is an easy one. Can you name the manufacturer of this engine?

 

Allison?

 

No, that is incorrect, this is an inline 6, the Allison V-1710 was a V-12, guess again.

 

Ranger .

 

Bingo, we have a winner, correct, that is a Ranger engine.

 

What is it used in?Lotta engine.

 

Ranger?
PS: Oops, I didn't see Pete's response, or see that he had already identified the engine. I never saw one in a sprint car, but when I was a teenager, a guy built a dragster using one. I never saw it perform.

Bob

 

I was digging in the shed looking for a part to take a photo of to show someone what the part should look like and found the box of slides dating back to 1968 when I was in Vietnam. Including some photos of the first helicopter I crashed in. I was flying observer in the left seat on that one.
The pilot I was flying with that day ended up being the last pilot I flew a mission with when he flew through the top of a tree and we had branches in the skids when we landed. Scared me more that time than the time we crashed, I didn't have time to get scared then. I didn't find what I was hunting but also found my big cylinder hone that can be used to bore a cylinder next to the box of slides.

 

OK, round 2.
This is a bit harder.
Can you name the make and model of this automobile and what was the innovative addition to it that was the first ever used on an automobile. I will give you a hint, the time period is 1911.

 

Hughes 500, V-tail, also known as the " Loche "

 

It’s the first Indy 500 winner, Ray Haroon (spelling?)drove it.
It had the first “rear view mirror” installed on the cowl. I have seen it a few times at the Indy museum and at the Concours of America.

 

Correct about the mirror, but you failed to answer the make and model of the car, so you get half credit. Bravo good try! It was a " Marmon WASP "

 

This is a ranger powered sprint car, the engines were originally aircraft engines.

 

I guess I forgot to mention it was a Marmon Wasp. (I did not google this info!)

 

And Ray Harroun's riding mechanic was named.....?

 

It's an underhead cam 6.....

 

The car was a single seat car, so in that race in 1911, there was no mechanic riding with Ray harroun . As indicated by the information posted .

 

No kidding?

 

If you want to be technically correct, the engine shown here ( I know because I shot the photographs) is a ranger L-440, made by the ranger division of Fairchild aircraft corporation.

 

That is a snowmobile engine.

 

Neat rig^^^.