I have the adapter to put a flathead trans behind a four banger and a set of swing pedals that takes two Ford master cylinders.
I have a cool Ansen fuel block at home going to be used on the gasser until I convert to Hilborn injection
Heck with the car, I want to know more about those hats! I have a couple of Ansen products in the collection; a cast steel Tri-five Chev 2 piece scattershield, the same scattershield in an aluminum alloy, and a NOS, in-the-original-box Ansen 3 speed shifter for a Chev, 3-speed trans,with or without overdrive. The early Chev 4-speed shifters are identical to Ansen shifters of the day; who made what, for who? I am Butch/56sedandelivery.
Great info Don, thank you. Love your website...I'll need to get a copy of the "as they were" to check against my own project : ) Any more ANSEN out there?
Well Gene it sounds to me like you should be looking for a tri five to pull behind that pesky '38 ( 7?) of yours. OK I have read through this thread and have not noticed where the Ansen name came from. In '47 Lou Senter had a shop called Senter Engineering and took on a partner named Jack Andrews ( given credit for the first dual-ignition system) and the partnership was named Ansen for Andrews and Senter. I just thought that would be an interesting tidbit.
Don Montgomery said "The engine in the left front of this picture is a Ford flathead with the Joe Davies overhead cam conversion. Some more knowledgeable than I can perhaps verify that this engine was built to race at Indianapolis for Bob Estes?" I think the Estes engine was on display at the Cunningham Museum years ago. It may have become part of the Collier effort in Florida when IRS gave Mr C so much grief.
Here is a pair of Ansen 14x6 rims I am using on a mini teardrop trailer I am building to carry my handicap scooter...they match closely to the other wheels on my Biscayne ...(Crestline 2's on front and ET's on back)
old thread, but I ran across this article today and thought it would be worth sharing. Still interested in seeing and hearing about any and all ANSEN speed parts.
Lions wouldn’t let a stick SBC run with out a scatter shield when I built my 62 Chevy ll so bought one theirs. Heavy and 2piece. I lived in Lomita at the time.
Still looking for any info on this car, it crashed a year after this photo was taken. Did any parts of it survive, are there any later photos?
Somewhere in my stash I have the brochure for their 8 port crossflow head for the 153” ChevyII engines. I’m guessing most went onto midget engines.
Ansen Apollo 15" X 6". All Apollo (round spoke) and Arrow (flat spoke) only came in the 5 1/2" bolt pattern. They used adapters to fit them to the other bolt patterns and came with a large chrome center cap. They were also available as a true knock off with the very rare knock off adapters.
What year do you think that fire suit is from? Came across this online. I wonder if Deist made the suits for Ansen "Although firesuits had been in infrequent use for a few years – Holland credited Tommy Dyer, wheelman of the Ansen & Pink dragster, as the first to wear one of Jim Deist’s safety suits – their use was not widespread until NHRA mandated them in 1964, requiring “aluminized, reflective, heat-resistant, and flame-proof suits.”
I had a ‘63 Riviera that had an Ansen decal stuck in the lower corner on the front windshield. I never found on the car what could have been equipped by them. I bought the car from the original owner and the car was dead stock. I never asked the owner what the decal implied and it remains a mystery since I sold the car over 25 years ago.
It probably had about as much significance as the Thrush decal I stuck on my girlfriend's Citation forty years ago.
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