Random picture thread

[dadsbee]

Starting to become the meme thread here.. lol

 

[icetech]

Sorry to post a ford, but these are cool-

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I love ford vans.. my brother had a 3/4 ton with a 300 straight 6.. the thing was a beast... This is the one scott at CWM painted a couple of years ago..

 

[sam dupont]

I love ford vans.. my brother had a 3/4 ton with a 300 straight 6.. the thing was a beast... This is the one scott at CWM painted a couple of years ago..

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a friend recently bought a mid-sixties short wheelbase van at an auction. It had 16.5 wheels from the factory. Looked like a half ton walking up to it thinking smoke would come out when the door was opened, but had 1 ton wheels.

 

[mmissile]

 

[Photon440]

TVR also used Ford 4 cylinders, BL fours, Ford V8s and 3 litre Ford Essex 6s. Later, TVRs used their own engines too. Customers put all sorts of other powerplants in also.
Speaking of the aluminium GM V8... It is public knowledge that I am NOT a buick person. At all. So I take mild umbrage at people always calling that engine a 'buick' ; Oldsmobile had a version of the same lump, and it was slightly different. The problem that Rover had was they used the buick version; Olds' iteration had less head gasket issues for example. What many do not know is the Oldsmobile version of that engine formed the basis of the "Brabham" that won the World F1 Championship in 1966.
And I certainly agree that the TVR is probably the most handsome of the new cars that year; the 'new' Griffith is one of the better looking open sportscars in any era imnsho.

You're right about the Oldmobile version being better, it has six bolts vs. the buick five per cylinder.
Buick version:


Oldsmobile

GM decided it was a failure because when turbocharged the bottom end could blow out of it, literally (poor aluminum alloys) and the porting held it back. Rover fixed all that giving it a usable 6000 RPMs.

It wasn't really a turbo problem; Buick for example didn't even use the turbo version and not very many Oldsmobiles were ordered with it. But poor castings problems were exasperated by many customers failure to use proper antifreeze; running straight water was still common back then.

GM's main reason for selling the engine to Rover was due to lack of need - the original compact Buick and Olds cars that used them (and it was also optional in the Pontiac Tempest) were upsized to intermediate size for 1964 and the little engine didn't have the needed power compared to cheaper and larger cast iron engines.