Saturday, November 05, 2016

1840 horsepower at 3,000 rpm. Cliff Hix’s scratch-built hot rod, with a V-12 Allison engine from a P-38 fighter plane



Thanks Robert!

http://tomstrongman.com/cliff-hix-built-a-hot-rod-with-a-v-12-allison/

The body started as a fiberglass, ’27 T bucket, but Hix and his younger brother, Dan, from Arkansas, stretched it to accommodate the rear-mounted radiator. Going fast is nothing new to these guys. They drag raced for years, and set an A Gas Supercharged speed record of 124 miles per hour in the quarter mile in 1958.

6 comments:

  1. He did a lot of brilliant engineering to the car also!

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  2. I'd sure like to hear that fire-up!

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  3. Q: Now what is better than a hotrod with an Alison engine up front?
    A: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/2f/f5/b5/2ff5b5b3e55f4acd61598680ff4e5245.jpg

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    1. what a BEAST! I wonder when the combined weight of engines begins to make a depreciating return on the number of engines put on a vehicle.

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  4. I forwarded your post to our Autolite/Fram training director, because of the four Fram filters on the engine. He wanted to try to contact the owner, so I did a Google search and found this -

    http://tomstrongman.com/cliff-hix-built-a-hot-rod-with-a-v-12-allison/

    Looks like another interesting blog, but the newest entry was in 2015.

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    1. I heard from Jay, (you'll see my post of questions he answered for me today) and he had emailed me to see if I knew the owner. That's mighty cool... getting that quintet of Frams replaced for free!

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