Update on things you see when you hang around hot rod shops

[turbohunter]

This was occupying a beautiful space this morning. I'm not sure but I think I heard angels singing around it.
It made it to Indy in the mid 50s, made it in the field then got bumped.

[Heo]

I love those cars. Funny that still in the 50s a racecar chassie was based
on Model A and V8 Ford Parts

[BruceS]

I'm an old Indy car fan too.  The engine looks like it might be a flathead with the Ardun heads.  I believe Bob Estes was a Lincoln-Mercury dealer in SoCal during that time. 

Bruce

[turbohunter]

Exactly right Bruce.
Here's some info
https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2011/09/25/sia-flashback-a-life-in-cars-the-bob-estes-story/
Heo I was struck by the same thing.

[Heo]

Yes its a Ardun converted flathead, 40s Ford brakes,Model A rear spring and crossmember
Houidale V8 shocks V-8 60 front tube axle quick change rear based on V8 banjo rear
I have an old Oliver Crawler that use The same Wico magneto
Ferrari Used those Houidale shocks long after Ford stopped using them

[BruceS]

Marc and all,
Here's a video I saw of its maiden run after resto: https://www.facebook.com/dale.estes.75/posts/915829605221179

Great sounding Ardun Ford!  I won't be suprised to see it soon at one of the vintage race car meets.

[57 lima bean]

This was occupying a beautiful space this morning. I'm not sure but I think I heard angels singing around it.

       Places like this are truly garagenous zones.Thanks for the photos.

[turbohunter]

Wow, thanks Bruce.

Garagenous zones

[machoneman]

Very Cool! 

A fellow here in Chicago has 3-4 Offy powered midgets that I guess first raced in the 40's or early 50's. Apparently a lot of these popular dirt or asphalt midgets have survived after years of being stored away. Those 4-cylinder Offy engines make some incredible sounds. Thought of getting an engine and stuffing into a 2009 Honda S2000 with a blown Honda engine! 

[cammerfe]

One of my earliest 'car' memories is going to Motor City Speedway, over in the northern suburbs of Detroit, with a friend and his uncle's 91 CID Offy-powered midget racer. It ran on straight methanol and was so rich at 'idle' that liquid methanol would run out of the stubby exhaust stacks and burn, in a puddle, along-side of the engine. The uncle's tuning theory was, "Keep it just short of hydraulic lock." I learned a bunch about running methanol from that experience. I was about 14-15---too young to drive. That would have been about 1955 or '56.

KS

[MeanGene]

Just cleaned up one of those Wico X mags about a month ago, swapped into a cherry John Deere B popper that wouldn't pop- clean up the fur inside inside the mag and blow it out, check it with the paper clip trick, popopopopopop....

[turbohunter]

I don't know anything about those mags guys.
Any place to find history/usage on them?
Edit
Hmmm
It's a tractor mag.

[turbohunter]

Am on a trip to the Midwest to visit my brother and other famous people.
I was at my brothers place of business (SCE gaskets) doing some gasket shopping for a visit to a certain Rogers Mn. based FE guru's fun factory tomorrow when my brother said "I've gotta get outta here, let's blow".
So we hop in my truck and head over to a gentlemans, hobby shack/car barn/fab shop. Upon walking in I saw two 32 coupes, a 63 split window, a dragster from prolly the way early sixties, a 30ish pickup, a 57 Cheb, a mid 60s Nova, a quarter midget race car, 3 Cadillac flatheads, a boat load of Merc and Ford flatheads and more stuff than you could shake a stick at. I didn't want to be a pest as the guy was really great, my kinda guy, very unassuming, but a hoot to talk to. But I did ask him if I could take a picture of one spot of shelves and what was on them. If you know what these are then you know the type of guy this cat is.
Had a great time.

[TimeWarpF100]

Am on a trip to the Midwest to visit my brother and other famous people.
I was at my brothers place of business (SCE gaskets) doing some gasket shopping for a visit to a certain Rogers Mn. based FE guru's fun factory tomorrow when my brother said "I've gotta get outta here, let's blow".
So we hop in my truck and head over to a gentlemans, hobby shack/car barn/fab shop. Upon walking in I saw two 32 coupes, a 63 split window, a dragster from prolly the way early sixties, a 30ish pickup, a 57 Cheb, a mid 60s Nova, a quarter midget race car, 3 Cadillac flatheads, a boat load of Merc and Ford flatheads and more stuff than you could shake a stick at. I didn't want to be a pest as the guy was really great, my kinda guy, very unassuming, but a hoot to talk to. But I did ask him if I could take a picture of one spot of shelves and what was on them. If you know what these are then you know the type of guy this cat is.
Had a great time.

Magnesium Halibrands?

[turbohunter]

Yes sir.
More than I've ever seen in one place.