IconoclasT wrote: ] All of my car-owning buddies used to kid me because I never ] had a real hot rod. Well, a little over a year ago, a guy ] named Randy Grubb showed up at my garage. He was hauling a ] trailer with a car on it that he and a pal of his, Mike Leeds, ] had built. Unfortunately, the car had no rear brakes, ] headlights or turn signals and was far from road legal. ] However, it did have a 190-in. wheelbase and an engine from an ] M-47 Patton tank. Naturally, it got my attention. ] ] So I handed over shopping bags full of $20 bills and the car ] was mine. And, it stopped all of that no-hot-rod nonsense I ] was hearing--in a hurry. ] ... ] This engine is an AV-1790-5B and it's 1792 cu. in. It has ] overhead cams and Hemi heads. Since it was designed to move a ] tank, it puts out 810 hp and makes 1560 ft.-lb. of torque. But ] you can't just hit the local neighborhood NAPA store for ] replacement parts on one of these. Fortunately, a fellow by ] the name of Roy Smith has a surplus company in Augusta, Ga., ] and he has piles of them sitting there. That is nuts! RE: To be Leno - a real car guy |