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Boy I would love to see the original photo of this machine, even has a brass radiator! Wonder if all that work was for business or pleasure?

Interesting. The rear end and suspension might not be model T? And both engines appear to be complete with transmissions. You can see some of both engine pans and the spacing. I wonder how they coupled the engines?

Looks like it could almost be the original Munster-mobile?

I got curious about this car so I did a search on Google with the description shown below the photo and found the photo with caption on Google Books. It’s in the March 1923 issue of Popular Mechanics magazine on page 427. Someone has added a lot of notations throughout the magazine and in doing so notated the name of the builder/owner and his location. So I did a quick search of his name and town and found this article about him as an inventor, home builder and reverend. The article shows a better photo of the car, the garage he built it in and his home he built. Pretty fascinating person!

https://beautifulnauvoo.com/files/2021/ ... olland.pdf https://books.google.com/books?id=XNoDA ... 9D&f=false

Thats interesting and thank you for the additional research Wallace. Popular Mechanics of March 1923 but the forward engine in the bottom picture appears to have a ‘New and Improved’ coil box. Probly Fordson, huh ?

Didn't someone make a V8 Model T block one time?

1925 Touring wrote: ↑

Mon May 27, 2024 6:45 pm

Didn't someone make a V8 Model T block one time?

Yes, a guy in California. Ford ordered them to be destroyed.

the California V8

Thank you Mr. Bellows, what a great story! That man was a genius.