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Re: ARDUN HEADS

To: ARDUNDOUG@aol.com, land-speed@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: ARDUN HEADS
From: "joe boogie" <boogiewoogie12@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 15:29:18 PST
6:30  edt  11-19

True Story.   I've heard that many many times thru the years.
Not only that,they  SOUND  like a great runnin "Hemi" (Chrysler dat is...) 
Music to M' ears.....
                                   Beauty.

                            Doug Anderson in NY

>From: ARDUNDOUG@aol.com
>Reply-To: ARDUNDOUG@aol.com
>To: lsr_man@yahoo.com, land-speed@autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: ARDUN HEADS
>Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 13:39:15 EST
>
>In a message dated 11/19/1999 9:37:04 AM Pacific Standard Time,
>lsr_man@yahoo.com writes:
>
><<
>
>  if
>  > anyone is crazy enough to tackle a set of these
>  > dinosauers.
>  >                                         Ardun
>  > Doug King in Castro's Valley,
>  > CA.
>  >
>
>  I'm certain that I fit the "crazy enough" part,
>  but I know my wallet won't.  I was just curious.
>  I think I'll have to stick with my old Evans
>  flatheads and the ol' elephant hemi, and leave
>  the Arduns to my dreams.
>
>   >>
>Dick,
>     Ironically(sp?) the Ardun is widely believed to be the father of
>Chrysler's 1951 331 Hemi. Rumor has it that when the MoPar engineers drew 
>up
>the 331 Hemi in 1950 they had an Ardun head and a 331 Cadillac Kettering V8
>lower-end on the drawing table, combining the two to make their first
>OHV.......Ardun Doug in CA.


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