I didn't quit the thread, my Dod, Dawg, told me it was time to go to bed. By the time I got done setting the trip wires, arming the pencil flares, and a few fun things it was time to watch the last publically broadcast lies and propaganda for the day.
Going back and looking at the thread I do believe there are some numbers that have been jumbled around, some maybe even by me. The engine that Vern posted is part and parcel to the whole Tank you very much part of this thread, with a number of twist and turns added and removed.
I'm glad I was able to clairify this.

 

I think johnnyc has some pics of his engine of the 337 varity in his gallery. I thought the song Hot Rod Lincoln was done in the late sixties or seventies at least Commander Cody and the lost something or others version was. Anyone remember the little nash rambler song? if so who did that one? It is intristing to note that the newer cadillac V16's were of teh L head varity while the older ones were OHV. that is whack!!!!

 

That's the one, except that it has 4 cams, not two, and the Army refers to it as a 4 OHC engine, as did Ford.

 

as taken from wikipedia:


337
This motor was designed for large truck service. When Lincoln could not produce the V12 engine it wanted for the 1949 model year, the 337 motor was adapted for passenger car use. The 337 features a 3.5 in (88.9 mm) bore and a 4.375 in (111.1 mm) stroke.

It was introduced in the 1948 two and a half ton and three ton Ford trucks and the 1949 Lincoln passenger cars. It was produced through the 1951 model year. In 1952 it was replaced in the Lincoln passenger cars and Ford three ton trucks with the Lincoln Y-block 317 in³ (5.2 L) overhead valve V8. The two and a half ton Ford trucks got a 279 in³ (4.6 L) version of the 317 motor.

In the song "Hot Rod Lincoln", the engine referred to in the original lyrics was a Lincoln V-12 not mentioned in the Commander Cody version.

 

Do a web search; it was a real neat story. They had a video posted of the tank being pulled and it was well preserved. Supposedly they got it running !

 

That's a pretty cool article. Lots of mud. I like the part that says "after servicing, the diesel engine started." I'd like to go down to the Midway Is. area and check out some of the vintage armour laying around the beaches and stuff. The picture that sticks in my mind is of a Sherman that got stuck while unloading, and is still sitting on the shore, as it did back then. There is supposedly a couple Shermans, and a Priest, and something else out in the desert here in central Oregon that were used as targets by the military.

 

That would be neat to see.
Kinda untouched by time unlike that 57 Plymouth in Tulsa.
Id like to have one of those Gamma Goats for going out in the woods.

 

I did a lot of research, and had almost all of the intact Shermans lost in WWII located. Including most of the ones that have been collected and restored. There are still several that reside on U.S. military installations, and several in museums around the world. There is a guy in PA that has a few, as well as many other military armour and vehicles from different wars. There are some in GA, IN, and a few more scattered about the states. There are more than a dozen still in the south pacific, including some that are in very restorable condition. I used to have close to 10GB of info and photos, and schematics, and stuff on the M4 thru M4A4E8 Shermans.

 

I too have an extensive collection of the old R&C along with Car Craft and Hotrod, plus some of the "back pocket" sized ones. Have any Honk! or Hop Up ?
The pinup inside the back cover woke up the hormones in the young teenager!

 

Who recorded the song? I can't remember..was it Chuck Berry?

1949/51 Lincolns and the Ford F7 and larger trucks shared the 337 cid flathead V8. In 1949, the Lincolns used Borg-Warner Overdrives, but added Hydra-Matic in 1950 and 1951 as an option. The plan was to use a V12 in the 49/51 Lincolns, but that all changed because of what happened with the 1949 Ford.


Henry was senile, and so The Deuce (Henry Ford II) was made prexy and CEO of Ford in 1944 at age 21 (Edsel died in 1943) and brought in Ernie Breech after the war ended as head of production. FoMoCo was moribund, had no production or engineering staff..to put it mildly, FoMoCo was a mess. Breech hired 50 members of the former War Production Board (nicknamed the Whiz Kids) to oversee finances in order to rescue FoMoCo from near bankrupcy. By late 1947, the plans for the 1949 cars were set, but Breech decided the 1949 Ford design was too heavy.


Breech asked his friend Holden (Bob) Koto who worked for Raymond Loewy to design a new 1949 Ford. He had a month to do it. Working nights (he baked the clay model in his stove), Koto did what was asked, and the only change Breech made was turning the taillights horizontal from Koto's vertical design. When Loewy found out, he fired Koto, who then went to work for Ford.

So, the original 1949 Ford design became the Mercury, the Mercury became the Lincoln and the Lincoln became the Cosmopolitan. It was then decided to scrap plans for a Lincoln V12, so the 337 cid truck engine was used instead.

Three of the Whiz Kids are well known today. Thomson, Ramo and Woolridge left Ford after a short time and started a new company using the initials of their last names: TRW.

 

Number D, I had to go way back to June 1990 of R&C to find that story about the Lincoln. Seems as I had the basic story right, but some of the facts wrong.
Charlie Ryan wrote the song about his car, an A model he bought after he wrecked a '41 Lincoln. He used the A model body over the Lincoln chassis, which was shortened 2' to fit! Later on he swapped to a '48 Lincoln engine.
In 1987 Charlie brought a car to a Tacoma WA body shop and saw a photo of a '32 Phaeton on the wall. He told the manager, Bob Davidson, " I have a model A coupe I wrote a song about." To shorten this thing up, Bob Davidson saw the coupe and decided it must be restored. After getting together with 19 people, Davidson rebuilt the coupe for Charlie and his wife Ruth. Numbers, Maybelline was Chuck Berry. We used to have a couple of radio stations around that played music from the '50s and '60s, but they've all changed their format now. Pity.

AX, I don't have any Honk, but have Hot Rod dating back to 1957. I joined the AF in 1954 and I asked my mother about my older mags. She said she had thrown them away! She figured I'd outgrown that stuff. Imagine that.

 

There were Lincoln and truck Y blocks that were 332, 341, and 368 cu in.

 

Didnt they have a 317 cid that also saw duty in medium duty trucks ?

 

That's what I love about this place When you ask a question, somoene does their best to answer it. Many times their even right!! Seriously, I love it when Number Dummy answers, you can take his answers to the bank!! Keep it goin guys, I'd love to see some pics of some of these rare engines!! I think they're awesome. I seen a pic of a chopper motorcycle with a radial airplane engine on it. I seen 2 different ones one with the engine cyls pointing forward and one with them pointing out side to side from the frame. That was awesome.


Maybe we could have a thread for " Dark Dark Darksiders" with radical engines in F100's??? Of course someone would probably be offended, but WHO CARES!!
Drive em if ya gotem!!

 

Yes, that is correct. I bought an old salvage yard several years ago, back in Abilene, TX. I came across an old Y block and thought I had something that guys restoring a 54-56 pickup or an old TBird might want. Discovered later that it was a 332 out of a dump truck. All looked the same, just slightly larger.