IconoclasT wrote:
] All of my car-owning buddies used to kid me because I never
] had a real hot rod. Well, a little over a year ago, a guy
] named Randy Grubb showed up at my garage. He was hauling a
] trailer with a car on it that he and a pal of his, Mike Leeds,
] had built. Unfortunately, the car had no rear brakes,
] headlights or turn signals and was far from road legal.
] However, it did have a 190-in. wheelbase and an engine from an
] M-47 Patton tank. Naturally, it got my attention.
]
] So I handed over shopping bags full of $20 bills and the car
] was mine. And, it stopped all of that no-hot-rod nonsense I
] was hearing--in a hurry.
] ...
] This engine is an AV-1790-5B and it's 1792 cu. in. It has
] overhead cams and Hemi heads. Since it was designed to move a
] tank, it puts out 810 hp and makes 1560 ft.-lb. of torque. But
] you can't just hit the local neighborhood NAPA store for
] replacement parts on one of these. Fortunately, a fellow by
] the name of Roy Smith has a surplus company in Augusta, Ga.,
] and he has piles of them sitting there.

That is nuts!