I believe it’s the other way around; Lycoming built engines for ground vehicles, THEN started building them for aircraft.

Careful, there, and shut your mouth! We don’t want to get The Root to pick this thread up for the wrong reasons

Whatever you do, do NOT weaken your resolve and drop one of your spare AMC inline 6 motors into this car!

VW loved putting that type I engine into a myriad of cars. When my dad was working in Resende back in the late 70's, he had a Golf or Polo based fwd car which had an air-cooled type I engine in it.

What I find odd about this build is that they obviously spent too much on the engine, on what otherwise seems to be a “strippo” model. White-painted bumpers ALWAYS meant that. Steel wheels with nut covers and the base engine are what belongs here. and keeping a Powerglide tranny????

COE, stands for “Cab Over ENGINE”.

Wow, $1500 for a solid, rust-free body? That alone is worth at least $2500! Wankel engines are remarkably easy to rebuild. They are small and light enough to do on the workbench in your garage, without needing an engine hoist. In fact, if you’ve never rebuilt an engine before, a Wankel rotary is probably the best…

I can imagine it now.....driving up an alpine pass, my twin-cam Fiat singing at 6000rpm.....doing 5mph!

“Euro-twist on a Camaro”? More like a downsized Mustang! Those things had almost no weight on the drives, and even those with the 170 cu. in I-6 could spin tires anytime they wanted. Simple live axle/leaf spring rear suspension guaranteed it would hop and skitter across uneven pavement. Handling in snow was atrocious,…

I once owned a Maverick. That woman behind the wheel can’t be taller than 4'10"......

Wow, of all the dumb ideas you’ve come up with, this one really takes the cake. Seriously, can you imagine a highway filled with people, all thinking “Now, L means 50, add 2 X’s means ........70, but with 2 I’s before the last x means......68"?

He mentioned JFK, so I assumed he meant an Airbus A320........

An “A320 driver”? You mean, like a “pilot”????? 

Yeah, well, the day that happens will be the day I go elsewhere....

Well, theory, reality and regulations rarely conform with each other. How many cars in such a consist could absorb the slack from a 5 mile long train? If a coupler broke 3 miles behind you, how are you going to get the brakeman out there in a timely manner? Is there enough air capacity for 5 miles of connections?…

Sorry, but once you remove the coal grates and the coal feeder and add an oilflame assembly, you can no longer feed coal into the firebox without ruining the oil-burning apparatus. This wasn’t some little 4-4-0 that you could shovel-feed, anyway.

No, but you can reverse-steam a locomotive. It was a common practice in mountain regions during the steam era.

I’m calling bullshit. UP has NEVER pulled a “5 mile long coal train”. I believe a 2 mile long train is possible only with special permits. Any train it pulled solo back then was certainly under 1 mile in length, especially going up Sherman Hill.

FWIW, #4014 was converted to oil. 

That diesel is actually assisting #4014. Don’t forget that a lot of critical components on it are 75 years old. It will never test it’s limits of tractive power.