there are some cool ideas out there for how to dress up the table centerpiece for the holidays!

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10235549809139066&set=gm.25466386436306861&idorvanity=413414438697407

you all are familiar with 413 cross ram intakes, but I still think they are probably uncommon in the typical car guy world... so - it's surprising to see TWO variations at SEMA yesterday! Carbon Fiber and polished aluminum

comparison between steel and aluminum intake weight, about 50 pounds, depending on those bolt on items they didn't remove before using the scale

 

a good air filter comparison, with the prices included

https://www.hagerty.com/media/maintenance-and-tech/is-a-high-flow-air-filter-really-worth-it

airflow tubes fin intake and exhaust are impressive! and batwings!

 https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=24074834698818284&set=pcb.24074842895484131

someone posted their yardsale score on facebook... dang... sweet haul!

 

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1191694749641601&set=pcb.2593343027679159

rarely seen Cross Boss manifold with the top cover removed, a factory over the parts counter option, the retail example of Ford’s SCCA Trans-Am-winning homologation effort, manufactured by Buddy Bar Casting in California

 

SCCA tech inspectors ruled the Inline Autolite four-barrel illegal. 

 Fortunately, Mustang team owner Bud Moore had been developing his own intake setup simultaneously with Ford’s efforts—Moore’s intake being known as the “Mini-Plenum.” Moore’s setup used a traditional Holley carb, so he wasn’t pushing the rules in the same manner as Ford. After the Inline was DQ’d, the Ford team made a quick switch to Moore’s intakes, and the rest is pretty well history—Bud Moore Boss 302s won the 1970 Trans-Am manufacturer’s championship.

https://www.hemmings.com/stories/running-down-a-dream

good stuff found in the swap meet

Never seen one of these before

 

I was tempted to buy this.... but, resisted. It would only gather dust. 

Pretty cool that Moto Meter made a tire pressure gauge

Real factory high perf 426 stage II or stage III max wedge iron exhaust manifolds that were as good as headers, seller wants 2k

here's what they look like on a 426 stage II

Real Chrysler under dash air conditioning

NOS 1963 tires

1970 or 71 Chrysler 440 six pack intake, Iron. Mopar didn't want to keep paying Edelbrock for the aluminum ones

I can't remember if these are cassette or 8 track, But I did see one in a GTX at the San Marino Classic https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2015/06/plum-crazy-hemi-beast.html 

413 long runner intakes... I saw 4 pair of them for sale, from 800 to 1200

NOS Mopar mufflers

real original tires, and spare 

I never would guess an Offenhauser intake would be such low quality, but damn, look at this

https://www.thedrive.com/guides-and-gear/casting-flash-removal-how-to

did you know that Edelbrock still sells 6 pack intakes for the 413, 426 wedge, 440? Not that they have any in stock, but then, Holley is out of stock on the carbs that mount on it too.

https://www.edelbrock.com/edelbrock-ch-6b-six-pack-intake-manifold-for-chrysler-rb-series-engines-2475.html

oh, Santa? I've been good this year, and kept blogging when I wanted to stop, and I just found something that would be REALLY cool for christmas!

that's Smokey Yunick's autograph on that intake!

https://www.mecum.com/lots/ES0922-530183/henry-smokey-yunick-signed-intake/

Hey, it doesn't hurt to ask, right?

Trivia about the American Graffiti cars, the Merc and Milner's duece

The intake on Milner's hot rod was a Man-A-Fre, it had 4 Rochester 2 barrel carbs, and direct port injection which was nicknamed the Afterburner

The Afterburner feature was a precursor to today’s direct-port nitrous oxide injection.

a Man-A-Fre kit was the aluminum plate that locates the four carburetors directly over the intake ports to achieve perfect fuel distribution and maximum performance.
The lack of traditional manifold passages kept the height of the entire setup very low. Even with the four carburetors mounted and air cleaners attached, everything fit under the hood

this one was made with 1958 carbs, mounted to the intake in 67, and in 1969 the owner was drafted but pulled this off his Corvette and put it in a duffle bag so it would be around when he got back from Nam, but he didn't use it for racing. It stayed in the duffle bag for 47 years before getting sold on Ebay


the 51 Mercury custom. In the movie it belonged to Bo Hopkins and the Pharoahs, who led Richard Dreyfuss to the adventure with the cop car.
Eddie Van Halen eventually bought the Mercury from a Universal Studios back lot and later sold it to Brian Setzer of The Stray Cats.
Eventually it belonged to a young collector in New York, who committed suicide over a failed love affair. His father refused to sell the car, and at last report it was rusting away in a junkyard.

https://www.hagerty.com/articles-videos/articles/2016/05/11/american-graffiti-deuce-coupe#
https://www.hotrod.com/articles/meet-man-fre-guru-makes-carburetor-injector-systems-look-like-new/

By the way, I'd love to blog more like this, about cooler cars, hot rod parts, etc, but it's far more time consuming to make one post with this type of stuff than 10 of the light humor, photos and amusing stuff. If posting was my full time paycheck job? It would be all about this sort of stuff, and without photos from library collections about old trains, showcases of painters art, etc. 

A cheater manifold with a second carb hidden under the manifold. Evidently the guy never got caught. He was found out 40 years later when the manifold was found at a garage sale of his stuff.

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/museum-of-american-speed.1060836/

the Speedway Motors Museum Of American Speed has an intake manifold wall of 300 unique and rare pieces, and another wall of them will be made of the ones recently donated by Ken Gross

https://bangshift.com/bangshift-galleries/gallery/speedway-motors-museum-of-american-speed-more-photos-from-the-amazing-collection/
http://www.hotrod.com/articles/1048sr-museum-of-american-speed/#1048srp-37-o-museum-of-american-speed-flathead-intake-manifolds

Holley carbs were sunken into these hemi manifolds at Daytona. While Chrysler officially attributed the deep design to hood-clearance issues, its “ram-boost effect” reportedly added fully 50 hp coming off of superspeedway turns.

http://www.hotrod.com/articles/funny-cars-can-trans-women-racers-emerge-1966-2/#012-struggles-1966-static-hemi-intake-daytona

the ultra-rare 1958 Super Marauder 430-6V engine option for Mercury/ Lincoln.

http://www.motortopia.com/car-blogs/1958-super-marauder-9127
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/mel-430-super-marauder-question.585081/

the only quandry was, single? Or dual? carbs

http://www.highdefforum.com/car-forum/115098-muscle-cars-1962-1972-a-140.html

Hydro dipped LS intake

car parts porn, of the unobtanium variety, is not just wow, it's on ebay and you can trade a few thousand dollars for it

Bangshift, as always, finds the coolest stuff!

http://bangshift.com/bangshiftapex/ebay-find-this-426-hemi-nascar-bathtub-intake-has-its-proper-matching-carb-attached/
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Hemi-4-speed-426-Nascar-bathtub-intake-Magnesium-RARE-/252266194394?hash=item3abc3ca5da:g:mhUAAOSwpRRWmEtm&vxp=mtr

But it's not that uncommon to find when looking on Ebay for rare hemi intakes... it's the only 60's Nascar one, but there are other cool ones for a couple thousand bucks apiece

A couple cool cars at Viva Las Vegas

a 413 long intake cross ram intake looks really damn good on a hot rod

and I think no one ever expected to see a Citreon Traction Avant at the Viva

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