Let's See Your Vintage Speed Parts!
We have a vintage Hemi in the shop from before "hemis" were around. This was the gentleman's version that didn't sling oil straight down.
It's a 2 cylinder, with a sort of prehistoric carburetor on it. This one i believe was manufactured in 1899 or 1901. I don't remember which. I'll have to pull the cover off of it and see. If you look closely you can see that the rocker arms were just held on with pins, that could be removed to make easy adjustments. Also what you see at the top is actually an overhead cam, believe it or not... Intake on one side of the camshaft and exhaust on the other with a hemispherical head.
It was manufactured for Truscott for a car I believe, but this one was mounted in a Fantail Launch boat. The "heavy duty" version had no oil collection and just let oil kind of dump on the ground/ bilge as I have heard.
We have a vintage Hemi in the shop from before "hemis" were around. This was the gentleman's version that didn't sling oil straight down.
It's a 2 cylinder, with a sort of prehistoric carburetor on it. This one i believe was manufactured in 1899 or 1901. I don't remember which. I'll have to pull the cover off of it and see. If you look closely you can see that the rocker arms were just held on with pins, that could be removed to make easy adjustments. Also what you see at the top is actually an overhead cam, believe it or not... Intake on one side of the camshaft and exhaust on the other with a hemispherical head.
It was manufactured for Truscott for a car I believe, but this one was mounted in a Fantail Launch boat. The "heavy duty" version had no oil collection and just let oil kind of dump on the ground/ bilge as I have heard.