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Well... I guess it really isn't a flathead any more...

 

I'm thinking his heirs will be trying to unload it before donating it somewhere. It is both pretty and pretty expensive.

 

So how big would the hole need to be in the center of my hood to accommodate that? Amazing. There are youtube videos of his flathead dragster. It can haul the mail.

 

I'm thinking the hood opening would extend into the windshield.

 

Very pretty, if not too practical. Still, I'd love to have it!
Now where's that extra $55k I had the other day.............

 

Beautiful engine! Saw a more tame version in a 40 Ford coupe last year, gotta love the Ardun heads.

 

OK, stupid question here. Or as I said to my students when I was teaching, "The only stupid question is the one you don't ask."

Why isn't it really a flathead anymore?

 

Ross with that engine you could a day off your next trip to TRUCKSTOCK !!

 

A flathead engine has the valves in the block and thus the heads are flat with no moving parts. The Ardun heads are an overhead valve design so when installed the engine no longer has "flat" heads.

 

But I couldn't afford to go there!

 

OK, that makes sense, I didn't know what Ardun heads were. Thanks

 

Here's the engine for posterity, cuz I bet it will sell over the weekend...
As I recall, original ArDun heads with all the rockers, pushrods, valves, etc. are well over $20k in good used condition. A blower setup like that is $5k, without the chrome. Six chrome Holleys, gotta be $1500 at least. The crank girdles are a couple grand and have to be fitted. His price of $55k doesn't look too out of line for what it is, and you're sure to be the only 533 HP flathead at the show!

 

Wow!


Its fun to look at, and probably fun to hear run, but no way in heck could I ever own one


Bobby

 

Look at the big kink in the oil line in the last picture ,I wonder how that will effect its durability in the long run .

 

looks like Ardun heads are being produced again. Only $14k!!!

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