Maybe one of the craziest rigs I've ever seen! And I wonder what that powerplant is. OHV v8. So chevy didn't invent this in '55?

 

Here is how to post pic's on FTE

https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/1...ure-guide.html

Here is one way by "Axracer"

Do you have digital pix of your truck from digital camera or phone on your computer?
If so it is easy to add them to a post (assuming the file is not too large). Find the
pic on your computer and leave it open while you come here in another window. Compose
a post, click where you want the pic to appear in the post. Click on the picture icon
at the top of the posting box (looks like a postcard with mountains and sun) A dialog
box will open asking if you want to drag a pic onto the box or browse your computer to
find it. If you have the pic open, go there, right click anywhere on the pic and chose
copy from the menu. Come back to your post and right click on the box. Select paste from
the menu. Your picture should appear (it may take a few seconds to load) in the box. Now
left click on the insert button.
If the stars all aligned your picture should now be in your post window. Select post to
have it appear on the forum or repeat to add more pix. Some cameras make huge files these
days that are larger than the forum limits. You may need to resize or resample the picture
and save the smaller file version with whatever picture editing software came with your
picture taking device before you can post it.


If you are a supporter than just right click on an image from anywhere like Facebook
or whatever. Than left click in your post and paste it in. So simple even a monkey
could do it.

Oh! and welcome to FTE and the old truck madness.

 

just for a minute!

Looks like an Hispano-Suiza



Pretty Cool

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispano-Suiza_8

 

Actually that v8 is WAY cool!

 

And way ahead of their time. Cast aluminum blocks and overhead cams in the teens, WW1 era. Some even had a hollow prop shaft and the machine gun shout out through it.
When I was a little kid I got to go to a museum and there was the engine from the first airplane to come to the Black Hills. It was an aircooled V8 with a lot of brass and exposed pushrods and rockers. I couldn't stop looking at it. I didn't care what else was in that dusty old museum. The building isn't a museum anymore and I often wonder what happened to it.

 

So I'm thinking the 'prop shaft' was chain driven like Wilbur and Orville's. That would be way too many corners to go around in a V8 crankshaft.....

 

 

Key words here... 'Not loaded'. BTW I think we are guilty of hijacking this thread. Perhaps these should be on the vintage photos thread. I don't think that one even mentions trucks in it's title.... We could have a field day there.

 

Yeah, that's what most of them had but a whole different mechanism than the hollow prop shaft

 

This would definitely beat paddling

 

This came with the optional wind shield and ski package. LOL.