Two C&Cs, HearseCon and a Golden Cruise, Pt 1

[scannon]

It's been quite a car intense day. I started with our local C&C where there were 40 cars including a Tesla, a 1954 Aston Martin 2.4, an AC ACE, a few Ferraris and other assorted cars. While there I got my first ride in a motorcycle side car, a Russian built clone of the BMW Boxer.

 

There was a BMW 2002 that someone bought on ebay out of Europe, the car has only 10,000 km on it and looks perfect. It was miscatogized and he paid less that $5k for it.

 

Although that Bristol engine in the AC ACE looks like a DOHC motor, it is actually a single cam in the block with pushrods. If you look closely at the head you can see horizontal pushrod tubes between the carbs. The valves on the near (intake) side are acutated through a pushrod from the cam to the exhaust side rocker box which has a rocker arm that changes the directions from vertical to horizontal, then a short pushrod between that rocker arm and the one in the other rocker box that actuates the valve.

Edited June 7, 2009 by scannon
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