“Powered by Economical, Dependable, GMC-Built Valve-in-Head Engines” ??
I must be missing something here. Where else are valves going to be but in the cylinders?
The Ford Flathead v8 was a valve in block engine.
It’s okay, SiG – that goes to show you aren’t truly a gearhead if you didn’t know about flathead engines. We’ll edumacate ya!
GM *used* to build reliable engines. My Beaver Motor Coach has a Chebbie 427 truck engine, this is the one that is the “million-mile” block. They ARE rather sturdy. Or were. That 4th compression ring probably has something to do with it…
Dodge had a great Flathead 6, that predated the “Slant 6” OHV Motor. Not sure what Cars/Trucks Dodge put them in, but my experience with them was the IND-32 “Industrial” Engine that was common in a Lot of the Ground Tractors and Generator Sets used in Aviation from WWII into the ’60s. Many of these units are still Soldiering On at Airports even today. Change the Oil once a Year, and they last Forever.
Marathon is still in business.
I would love to road trip in that first one and I would if I owned it
#8 that Dodge Cab-Forward Dually is a Great piece of Work – Resto and Modded very well. I hope he used Dodge Components for the Driveline, too.
Using it as a Tow Rig, I hope he put the LA727 Auto Trans in it.
As I recall (from having a similar 1969 A-Body Van) you could have gotten a 360 V-8 Motor in that Cab-Forward Series. I had a Slant-6 in the 1/2-Ton Van, and if it wasn’t Overloaded, it drove well and got good Gas Mileage, something that Engine was known for whatever Car it was in.
The Dodge Slant Six is legendary.
I love old engines like Waukesha 245gz and such. I guess they all gone like yesterday’s lunch. Also loved 549 IH. Workhorse.
I’d take that F1, since no one else seems interested.
And perhaps a couple of those Stude’s. For the nephew – of course.
Leigh
Whitehall, NY
It’s yours, but I get the first pick of one of the Studes and the Dodge Cabover.
I learned to drive a tractor trailer in one of those N model Fords.
“Powered by Economical, Dependable, GMC-Built Valve-in-Head Engines” ??
I must be missing something here. Where else are valves going to be but in the cylinders?
The Ford Flathead v8 was a valve in block engine.
It’s okay, SiG – that goes to show you aren’t truly a gearhead if you didn’t know about flathead engines. We’ll edumacate ya!
GM *used* to build reliable engines. My Beaver Motor Coach has a Chebbie 427 truck engine, this is the one that is the “million-mile” block. They ARE rather sturdy. Or were. That 4th compression ring probably has something to do with it…
Dodge had a great Flathead 6, that predated the “Slant 6” OHV Motor. Not sure what Cars/Trucks Dodge put them in, but my experience with them was the IND-32 “Industrial” Engine that was common in a Lot of the Ground Tractors and Generator Sets used in Aviation from WWII into the ’60s. Many of these units are still Soldiering On at Airports even today. Change the Oil once a Year, and they last Forever.
Marathon is still in business.
I would love to road trip in that first one and I would if I owned it
#8 that Dodge Cab-Forward Dually is a Great piece of Work – Resto and Modded very well. I hope he used Dodge Components for the Driveline, too.
Using it as a Tow Rig, I hope he put the LA727 Auto Trans in it.
As I recall (from having a similar 1969 A-Body Van) you could have gotten a 360 V-8 Motor in that Cab-Forward Series. I had a Slant-6 in the 1/2-Ton Van, and if it wasn’t Overloaded, it drove well and got good Gas Mileage, something that Engine was known for whatever Car it was in.
The Dodge Slant Six is legendary.
I love old engines like Waukesha 245gz and such. I guess they all gone like yesterday’s lunch. Also loved 549 IH. Workhorse.
I’d take that F1, since no one else seems interested.
And perhaps a couple of those Stude’s. For the nephew – of course.
Leigh
Whitehall, NY
It’s yours, but I get the first pick of one of the Studes and the Dodge Cabover.
I learned to drive a tractor trailer in one of those N model Fords.