Double engine swap.
Which is about 1/100th as impressive as that Packard pontoon. Packtoon? Pontard? 
Please do not try to turn this into a forum for political statements. It’s a car forum. There are, I’m sure, other forums to promote your political beliefs.
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I installed an FM converter for the AM radio.
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I wired mine up so it won’t start the engine unless the key is inserted & turned to “on”.
One problem I’ve a had since day 1 w/my early 70’s Ford 302 truck has been a tendency for the engine to overheat. It only happens in 4wd and going very slowly, especially uphill where it is hard to tell if there’s actually a road there. Based on your experience, do you think a bigger radiator is a good solution for this problem?
That’s some serious talent on display… Just getting those 2 pontoons aligned parallel and level is master class workmanship in my opinion. But add to that the fold down side decks that incorporate the wheel hubs, suspension and brakes. I’d like to read the magazine article.
I would go with a trans cooler add in first, wow 4wd, you are living large!! Mine was 2wd with a blown high pressure power steering hose I never had the $450 to replace, 20 years and big biceps (not) it was not too bad.
It solved the issues with the 1974 F-100 I had, The radiator it had in it looked like the the original when we got the truck in in 1994, so it was already 20 years old and had over 100k on it, so chances are it was half clogged anyway. With the larger engine, it just exacerbated any shortcomings it had. However, it usually took temps in the mid-90’s and a decent load (driving up a mountain) for it to overheat so it wasn’t considered a big deal. With that said in the mid 2000’s my dad finally replaced the radiator with a new, larger one, and it never got above half a gauge no matter how hot the weather or how heavy the load was. Dad sold it around 2010, and bought a used 2003 F-150 (base model, 2WD, the only “extra” it has is A/C) to replace it. The 1974 F-100 was sold locally, and I still see it on the road every now and then.
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Here’s the link (courtesy of TwinTurbo):
You can also Google patent number 3,067,439 if you’re interested.
Edit: The bevel-gear drive shown in the patent was never used. The drive went through an evolution: straight shaft, toothed-belt (think dragster supercharger drive belt), 16 V-belts, and finally an angled drive with two typical U-joints at both the top and bottom. The second, and last, car adapted was a 1963 Dodge Polara 4-bbl with a 383 V8.
The “crew” are my younger brothers.
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Very impressive.
LOL, man, does that bring back memories!
I loved looking at that old magazine. I need to go back and look at it some more. Interesting articles on the 59 Chevy, Ford and Plymouth.
Most of those new inventions never went anywhere except the motorized home and the roto tiller. Interesting that that trailer that lowers itself to the ground is what is used around here for ice fishing houses by some serious fishing fans. Crank down the wheels and haul it on the lake, then crank the wheels up and it sits flat on the ice. Far more useful for ice fishing that general utility use.
I look around and people say it’s the spare way to start the car when push button doesn’t work
I’m curious how the cooling system work. Is it the same way like automobile?
Drop deck trailers are commonly used to move fork lifts and boom lifts to job sites. Plumbers and electricians use these trailers to bring their equipment for commercial repairs. The maintenance guys use this type of trailer to bring a boom lift to replace light bulbs in the parking lot.
Additional cooling was needed. River water was pulled from an intake under a hull to a bronze gear pump driven by a v-belt from the input shaft of the propeller drive (see pic below). Then it was pumped to the tube-side of a small shell-and-tube heat exchanger mounted directly below the radiator. The lower radiator coolant return pipe went to this heat exchanger and then on to the engine. Basically, the new heat exchanger was in series with the radiator.
In the picture, you can see the front of the differential above the v-belt to the river water pump.
Final notes: The rig was last launched in Oct., 1984. Age (mostly rust) was taking its toll. Right after Dad’s death in 2009, it was given to an acquaintance who enthusiastically stated he’d get it back on the water. To my knowledge, that never happened and it sits in a barn. We tried to interest auto and boat museums (even Ripley’s Believe It Or Not) to no avail. A large photo has been displayed in the Packard Museum of Dayton, Ohio.
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Didn’t you see the fiber optics article?
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I haven’t converted a car to a boat or anything that crazy. I have done much more simple things like engine swaps. I put a 347 into a 4 cylinder ranger.
I am currently rebuilding a ford V10 for a shuttle bus. The shuttle bus will be a conversion camper when I am done with it.