History 1961 Hot Rod engine swaps

I picked this little book up a couple years ago when I was going through a phase of collecting old magazines. It's been just sitting on my coffee table since then. The author is Dan Francisco.

I went through and scanned a few bits and pieces...Hope you guys dig it.

 

Missed this one somehow...

 

Thanks for posting this.. it pretty neat.. Damm those prices are crazy

 

"Noisy exhaust system does not make sense if the car is to be driven in town because of the trouble it can cause"....

Sure..


Anyhow thanks for sharing! I'll have to keep my eye out for this one at the swap meets!

 

Maybe you haven't been pulled over and written a ticket for loud exhaust by the Man! I got several of those in my youth. The cops used to pull you over and roust you for CS stuff like being too low, too loud, no bumpers or fenders etc.

But that was in the day when they tried to catch you draggin' on the streets. Nowdays no cop does that anymore. It's all about drugs, DUI, or gangbanging now.

 

Wow! always cool to look back like this!!! thanks!

 

Too bad some of those old adaptors aren't still built today.

Frank

 

I like the oil pan mods for the steering linkage.

 

SOME of that stuff they did was SCAREY...like whacking the front crossmember, rather than installing an electric fuel pump...

 

WAY cool. I'll have to remember it so I can search for it later. Thanks for posting it.

 

I was gonna say the same thing.. Man that is a cool book though.. Thanks for taking the time to share it

 

Hey, Ive got one of those little books too! Found mine next to a trashcan in a pile of old Hot Rod mags at a swapmeet when it started to rain. I took em all. Saved them before they got wet.

 

That brings back some memories, some where in my library, I've got several of those "engine swap" how to books. I can remember that they helped me through many of my early hot rod builds. MY first was a Dodge D500 into a '46 Ford bus. cp. in 1959,wish I could do it again on the same budget.

Jack

 

yeah, some of that stuff would never fly today

I have one of these Lasalle plate adapters, 'wondered what it bell it fit

 

Nice. Thanks for passing it on!

 

cool..thanks for sharing

 

Yeah, that's one of my favorites...I spent some time on the bay a few years ago, and collected the whole "Spotlite" series. Occasionally, you still see some listed in "Hot Rod Magazine" e-bay search, but getting scarce!

 

is that a y block on the cover they're swapping into a falcon ?

 

I have a couple of later editions of the same book. Even though lots of the methods have been superceded by better technology, there are lots of clever ideas shown, and lots of imagination evident.

Looking through the old books sort of rejuvenates the imagination.