In a message dated 01/06/2001 6:55:17 PM Pacific Standard Time,
Want1937hd@aol.com writes:
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I have been lucky to have owned both sets of Ardun heads. The first set was
NOS never bolted to a block! The valve gear was all packed in cotten bags
with Ardun stamped on them. I sold them to pay the balance on the plumbing
when we built the house 23 years ago. The other set was a complete engine
that spent its life on a dyno. There was a copper tag riveted to the valley
#1001. The rocker covers had Made in Germany in raised letters, all the
spair
parts were wraped in German newspaper. Yes, it was on a V8-60 block. This
head used the Bristol design rockers, with an extra pushrod and rocker to
get
to the valve on the far side. That went down the road in exchange for the
missing pieces to the '32 Ford roadster I was building at the time. Sure
wish
I still had that one to go in the 1948 MG-TC. Bob
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Bob & Bruce,
There's a guy in CT named Mike Hart who is quite an authority on thr
Ardun. I think he lives in a town called Brushy Plain or something close to
that.
There were somewhere between a dozen and two dozen of the V8-60 Arduns
made. I didn't know that they were made in Germany. Bill Hoddinott may have
some information on that. He interviewed Zora Arkus-Duntov several years ago
and might have questioned him about the smaller Ardun..........Ardun Doug King
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