[AT] Did the engine seize up on ATIS?

[Kenneth Gene Waugh]

And after seeing this straight-eight thing banded about, it finally popped
into what little is left of my functional mind! Pontiac, of course. "The
Pontiac *straight*-*8 engine* is an *inline eight*-cylinder automobile
*engine* produced by Pontiac from 1933 to 1954."

Gene Waugh
Elgin, Illinois

On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 3:12 PM Indiana Robinson <robinson46176 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks guys.
> I have a long history with flat-heads starting with a Model A Ford that I
> basically learned to drive in. I remember when my father got a brand new
> surplus 4 banger Jeep engine right after WW-II to put in his 1937 Willys 4
> door.  He had parked it during the war because he couldn't get Jeep parts.
> Not only was it a complete ready to run drop-in engine up to and including
> the air cleaner, we also used that heavy crate as a dog house for over 15
> years.  :-)
> A 39 chrysler 4 door we had later was a flat head as was the 1952 Ford V-8
> station wagon we got in 1954. My 1952 Plymouth Cranbrook 2 door was the
> common flat-head 6 that dated back to about 1935 and it was also almost
> identical to the flat-head 6 in a friends 1957 Plymouth.  I guess my 1953
> Dodge was my first non flat-head engine. It was a hemi... Around 1968 a
> friend gave me his fathers old 1949 Oldsmobile Model 77 that was his second
> car and I drove it as my second car for several years. It was a flat-head 6.
> Of course there were all manner of configurations like L-head, F-head etc.
> but if I knew what exactly each meant I have forgotten.   :-)
> Cecil, I have several of that vintage of "Motors Manuals" (back when they
> were a gold mine of information) and I need to dig one out. BTW, I still go
> back to one of them if I have voltage regulator question etc. Lots of in
> depth stuff...
>
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> On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 2:22 PM Ralph Goff <alfg at sasktel.net> wrote:
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>> On 8/11/2019 11:53 AM, pga2 at BasicISP.net wrote:
>> > This and two others came in at about 4:20 this morning.
>> >
>> > Phil in TX
>>
>> Its been pretty slow until this morning. Never saw anything about
>> straight 8 engines.
>>
>> Ralph in Sask.
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Gene
Kenneth Gene Waugh
Elgin, Illinois
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