Well I like the fact that these guys were willing to take lots of unpaid hours and have to really think out of the box because these old motors that were really the baseline motors of most of our modern OHV Hot rodding have near ZERO Market out there for whatever they discovered. So it's all out of pure love and pure science for hot rodding. I don't know about y'all, but I respect that.

Did you ever have something laying around and tinker with it just to see if you could make it better than it was? That curiosity and necessity to just 'work with what I had' and what I could afford is pretty much the cornerstone of everything I ever learned about this hobby. At least the scope of this project wasn't anchored in "off the shelf" aftermarket parts, guys had to pretty much "hot rod" the old "junk".

The worst car projects I ever worked on I still wound-up learning something useful from...even if it was "yep, THAT was a waste of time!" It was still fun finding out.

I love that old tech, it makes you appreciate the innovation and tenacity the early hot rodders had. And some of the smartest and fastest hot rodders I know still have that fascination for the past...Look At Mike Daurity (Stephen's Dad); I had an absolute BLAST visiting with him and watching him fire up an old (early 1930's vintage maybe) Hit and Miss powered Farm Engine...I love the history of machinery, and this EM is kind of a nice break from the conventional modern "off the shelf" script.