Warbird Information Exchange

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Wow, different indeed...

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Christopher Soltis
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Chicks Dig Warbirds.......right?

GOOGLE image Jim Lytle, he also built a badazz 34 Ford sedan powered with an ALLISON named 'BIG AL', a twin ALLISON drag car, and one that never ran, but still exists, a FIAT TOPOLINO body surrounded by 4 ALLISONS and 4WD . And you always thought 'TV' Tommy Ivo's 'SHOWBOAT' with 4 injected BUICKS was cool

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Anyone know the location & which P51 that is? Something about the pic makes me think it's VNY

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I wonder how old the image is?
Note both the Mustang and T-28 have civil schemes....and it was printed in B&W.
And note the credit...looks to be the Mustang Owners Club or similar.

Late 60s at least.

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If this helps. I found a color copy of the photo on GOOGLE and the P-51 was white over metallic blue with a black cheat line

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wonder how many good engines have been wasted on c ra p like that over the years. And how many good cars that have been sacrificed for this kind of stupid stuff.
Saw a 57 chevy (may have been a 55) on tv not too long ago, the guy had put I think it was a merlin in it. Too much money and not a drop of good taste.

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It was a '55 Chevy. I thought it was incredibly cool. To each his own, eh?

The Isetta with the Allison is also incredibly cool. I'll bet it was a handful to drive. . .

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Dean Hemphill, K5DH
Port Charlotte, Florida

While GOOGLING around about this, I came across a copy of an ad from some surplus outfit in Buffalo, NY that ran in a 1947 MECHANICS ILLUSTRATED advertising 'complete, ready to run with all accessories' V-1710-135's for $350.00 ea. F.O.B.

Lytles cars were all square steel tubing and used CAL-AUTOMOTIVE fibreglass repop bodies the FIATglass body was seriously cut and sliced to make it even smaller to make the car look even more ridiculous.

The engines were cheap, abundant, available, and made huge torque and horsepower in the days when car manufacturers praised the fact their new 'BELCHFIRE' put out 135 H.P. It was the era when the guys who had worked on them were getting into hot rodding and speed. That's why lots of them went into Unlimited Hydroplane racing.
Now the 'hot' engine for Unlimitedsis the LYCOMING T-55 -7 from early CHINOOKS, again there's tons of them slowly going back to nature, so that in 65 years someone will say 'GEEZ! if I'da only...........'Look out, the wheel is picking up speed again....

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Thats easy, late '66/early '67








as it says APRIL 1967 at the bottom of the PIC.

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Martin
Wide open & turning left.

I'm guessing this one, and Van Nuys would be the logical location.

http://www.mustangsmustangs.com/p-51/p5 ... p?page=365

I hope this link works. If it doesn't, look up BRUTUS on Youtube. These German nuts took a 1920's American LaFrance fire truck chassis and put in a BMW V12 aircraft engine. I love this video. Yes, it is ridiculous and over board, but it looks like fun. http://youtu.be/zUsaYRyuGNY

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The nose art/aviation artist and general lunatic from Houston, Texas http://www.jasonbarnettartist.com

According to the picture this is a page out of the April 1967 Rod &
Custom Magazine

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The nose art/aviation artist and general lunatic from Houston, Texas http://www.jasonbarnettartist.com

I'm feeling pretty smug now, I was going by the slope of the hill to the right of the T28 in the background

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This says it crashed in Palmdale.. anyone know the location?

http://www.mustangsmustangs.net/p-51/p5 ... 4950.shtml

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