cool blue print, or is this more accurately called a mechanical drawing

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=27251539634464766&set=gm.1752396026036216&idorvanity=226675368608297

the Goodguys Hot Rod of the Year goes to Todd Samson's traditional-style, Ardun-powered deuce roadster

https://fuelcurve.com/goodguys-names-todd-samsons-deuce-roadster-their-2026-tanks-inc-hot-rod-of-the-year

Race Shark belly tanker from NYBO Rod Shop at 2023 Romo, a '34 Ardun Coupe

The air shield over the carbs is a cool piece, it has some airbrushing to name the car, on the other side, and on this side, has mission symbols

 https://www.instagram.com/p/DH35od_qzBB for the video clip

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cwnc4EKq0HB/?img_index=1

Might be the source of the engine and chassis.  https://www.instagram.com/p/Cac59fissTP/?img_index=1

Hot Rod Chavik

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=959993029470304&set=a.482057733930505

Ray Evernham is selling his car collection, 32 cars and 1 engine at Mecum Auctions upcoming Indianapolis Auction Thanks Mike!

https://www.mecum.com/auctions/indianapolis-2022/collections/ray-evernham-collection/
https://www.facebook.com/rayevernhamenterprises/posts/515694680224681

After WW2 Larry Shinoda got into the Southern California hot rod scene, and built several hot rods named “Chopstick Specials.” He won his class in the 1955 NHRA Nationals in a 1924 Ford roadster powered by an Ardun V-8.

I don't find it useful to repeat what everyone already knows, and I do appreciate relaying what I learn about some famous people who were successful in racing, hot rodding, and were in the military. 
I find it has been the more interesting stuff to learn, instead of the normal stuff everyone rehashes on the other websites

As a kid, Larry was always drawing cars with pencil stubs he found. At the age of eight, he did a large color painting that years later hung in the Los Angeles Museum of Art.

He built hot rod Ford coupes and roadsters called “Chopsticks Special” that he street raced, drag raced, and speed raced on the dry lakebeds of California’s Mojave Desert. 

I didn't know until now that Shinoda worked at the Weiland Company to put himself through two years at Pasadena City College.

After college Larry had a two year stint with the Air National Guard and spent 16-months in Korea.

In 1953 Shinoda set the SGTA Bonneville Nations D-Class Speed Record with a two-way average speed of 166-mph in his Chrysler-powered roadster. Then in 1954 Larry won the Fuel Roadster class at the first NHRA Nationals in Great bend, Kansas.

I didn't know until now that he'd been in the Art Center College of Design, or that he'd joined racecar builder A.J. Watson’s Indianapolis 500 team for a season, he designed the car’s sleek, cigar-like body and wild pink livery in addition to working on the crew. 

Pat Flaherty drove the car to victory, giving Watson one of his six career wins at the track... and he spent some time designing the body and the car’s paint scheme of  the John Zink car, as crew that raced and won the 1956 Indy 500. 

When working at the GM design studio, with Bill Mitchell, he drove a white 1956 Ford. The engine was a Bill Stropp race-prepared 352 with dual quads, headers, NASCAR shocks and a full roll cage.

Below is his 1932 Ford three-window coupe he built for drag racing. He cut away most of the firewall and placed a Ford flathead V-8 as far back in the chassis as possible seeking optimal weight distribution at launch

 The driveshaft to the quick-change rear was only 26 inches long. The car ran over 120 mph in the quarter At El Mirage, on pure alcohol, it was clocked at 138 mph, Russetta Timing Association certified. The car was later sold to Don Montgomery.

https://www.3dog.org/project/1932-ford-3-window-coupe-larry-shinoda

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/vintage-shots-from-days-gone-by.428585/page-5869#post-12881072

https://www.hagerty.com/media/people/know-your-designers-larry-shinoda

http://www.corvettereport.com/corvettes-founding-fathers-larry-shinoda-sting-ray-mako-shark-designer/

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/?p=36828

https://www.fujisan.co.jp/articles/courrier/14/

Great googly moogly

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1614905241995596&id=100004284075892

Ardun heads, I've seen and learned about them, but today I heard a rumor they were made for garbage trucks originally, to boost power 60%

the originals were built in England because they commissioned Zora Arkus Dontov and his bother to pump up the power of it's commercial fleet (garbage trucks)
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/when-did-ardun-heads-come-out.1038774/

is the rumor that seems to have no data to back it up

New York Times article was dated August 18, 1947.
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/when-did-ardun-heads-come-out.1038774/

tells the early history of the Ardun heads, and the rest is worth reading, but nothing is ever mentioned about garbage trucks.

https://books.google.com/books?id=S7E_gXmNbpAC&pg=PA139&lpg=PA139&dq=Ardun+White+Paper&source=bl&ots=KE0LNK9wBF&sig=lqQL-h8ImnMZs0fgBMH52bUVp5Y&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiX1_vh443QAhVU92MKHfjYCPUQ6AEIQzAE#v=onepage&q&f=false

Sources of the rumor:

ARDUN cylinder heads, designed and built by Zora Arkus Duntov, for flathead Ford V8’s in NYC garbage trucks that were under powered. ZAD would later become a design engineer with GM on the Corvette https://catchmeifyoucan427.tumblr.com/post/181330225917/ardun-cylinder-heads-designed-and-built-by-zora
and https://www.fordbarn.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1477169

and then there is the frequent complaints about the Ardun heads:

The same book ( "Zora Arkus-Duntov The Legend Behind Corvette")  mentioned says it appears the Ardun heads had "a littany of problems, D. Randy Riggs, in an Automobile Quaterly aticle on Ardun wrote: "It's cast-steel pushrods weighed the same as a connecting rod, and valve seats came loose from expansion differences of the aluminum and bronze materials. The stock Ardun valves were too heavy. Exhaust manifolds were constricted and head gaskets were a common failure. The coke bottle shaped lifters were originally made from Buick components and had a tendancy to gall. Valve springs were inadequate. The two intake manifolds had no balance tube between them and were poorly designed. The spark plug tubes were a menace and the stock Ford ignition was not up to the task.""

It goes on to quote Ray Brock who said the heads did nothing to fix the age old overheating problem that Fords were known for.

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/blast-from-the-past-1947-popular-science-ardun-heads-for-flathead-fords.522221/

veteran English Rodder Ken Cooper said that the Ardun units were used on (some) refuse vehicles. He had some.

https://www.fordbarn.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1477169

Around 1941, (obviously the years are wrong, so the rest isn't reliable info either) ten years BEFORE Chrysler unveiled their first Hemi headed engine called the FirePower in 1951, the Ardun Company of New York "designed" a set of hemi-spherical heads for the Ford Flathead V8. Originally designed for military truck's, Ford Motor Company built these "hemi" engines for garbage trucks in London prior to switching to a less problematic and bigger Lincoln engine.
https://www.facebook.com/fordmenlegends/posts/685154864872025

https://books.google.com/books?id=paeyN79nV90C&pg=PA115&lpg=PA115&dq=ARDUN+heads+garbage+trucks&source=bl&ots=rJMkrijSps&sig=XHUwC7XHasVefEW7XfnT_vQaLkk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjQvKOzoLXfAhVhl1QKHbMAAuMQ6AEwCHoECAUQAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false

Ford Total Performance: Ford's Legendary High-Performance Street and Race Cars By Martyn L. Schorr
https://books.google.com/books?id=gsFQCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA13&lpg=PA13&dq=ARDUN+heads+garbage+trucks&source=bl&ots=LTZzLtjr3g&sig=0-DHx34fwy5c7woPPiTs0KUc34c&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjQvKOzoLXfAhVhl1QKHbMAAuMQ6AEwCnoECAIQAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false


You can thank garbage trucks for the birth of not only some of the most legendary and coveted hot rod parts known to man in the form of Ardun cylinder heads but also for launching the career of a man who still stands as a giant long after his passing today, Zora Arkus-Duntov. We think of Ardun heads today as pieces used by hot rodders to make their cars faster and they were but the original intention of these babies was to crank the power level of garbage trucks being used in London up after Ford was granted a contract to supply them but their flathead V8s were not making enough power to meet the specs of the agreement. This overhead valve conversion got the power levels up and had the trucks meeting muster. Today, original Ardun heads are among the most prized pieces in the hot rodding universe.

https://bangshift.com/bangshift1320/watch-this-table-top-sized-ardun-headed-flattie-fire-up-and-run-the-sound-is-great/

the car I most want that is coming to auction? Don Ferguson rebuilt Ardun powered, S.CO.T supercharged, Gene Winfield painted deuce roadster that was the Apr 1964 Hot Rod centerfold

https://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/cars-for-sale/ford/model-b/1942217.html?refer=blog

unusual, but Ardun heads with a supercharger

http://vid.carbuzz.com/this-inventor-went-all-steam-ahead-with-his-quirky-build/?utm_source=189

the GRNS is a great place to try and make good photography

Ardun heads. 200 sets made to boost power on Ford V8s to 300 hp on gas, 500 on nitro. Don Garlits owns 4 sets, here is the best, burning nitro

Skip the 1st 25 seconds

Found on http://www.enginelabs.com/news/video-big-daddy-don-garlits-fires-up-ardun-headed-ford-on-nitro/

master machinist Ron Bement's 1/3rd scale Offy, Ardun head, and flathead engines

All of his engines are machined on a Bridgeport, a state-of-the-art Fadal CNC machine, a CNC lathe, and an EDM (electrical discharge machine). Before he got interested in mini engines, he ran his own company; RB Enterprises, started in 1965.

I remembered those Offenhauser engines in midget race cars that ran at Lakeside Speedway during the 1950’s. I loved the sound of them and decided an Offenhauser might be a fun build.

As a machinist, he made parts for world famous Jolly Rancher Candies in Denver, Colorado as well as many other small projects. During those early years of his business, Ron got interested in golf and developed a set of investment cast golf (stainless steel) clubs for a former Nugget basketball player and a set for the CEO of Squirt Bottling Company. Two hundred sets were built and sold.

After the Offy, Ron decided he wanted to build the remarkable Ardun engine. He talked a friend out of his genuine 59AB Ford bare-block. It took 4 months to measure the block and enter that information into the computer program. Same with very special valve covers – once entered into the computer, the CNC turned out one Ardun valve cover in sixty-five hours.

http://www.enginelabs.com/engine-tech/engine/master-machinist-ron-bements-13-scale-offy-flathead-and-ardun/

This past weekend was the Race of Gentlemen, here are some cool photos by Jay Phillips and Freaky Rico

Above are the "Rolling Bones" on the left, and I'm not sure about the red one, but it says Salinas over the back wheel

The Race of Gentlemen is nothing if not detail oriented. The race grounds themselves were quartered off by beach fencing. Each major sponsor was protected from the elements by what looked to be vintage circus tents complete with original tie-downs, hardware, and roof mounted wind socks. The food vendors were housed in reclaimed wood sheds that were assembled on-site much like the vintage-style timing and photography towers that lined the track. And then, of course, there was the glorious event headquarters – a WWII era General’s tent capped by a vintage Craftsman sign (a show sponsor).

Never have I seen a more focused group of traditional hot rods and bikes that spoke to me so loudly and so clearly. Right down to the last roadster, every car was appropriate to the venue and the vision of the Oilers and their “clothing company.” Everything fit with precision. It was a perfect field… So perfect, that I began to think again about the passion and dedication of the people that put this thing on.

read the whole article at http://www.jalopyjournal.com/?p=24342

Both sets from Facebook https://www.facebook.com/OilersCCRaceOfGentlemen and https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000381208980&fref=ts