New 26' 1929 Dodge Watercar, Amongst A Ww1 Curtis Ox5 Aircraft Engine That Dodge Bought Upwards Later The Nation Of War Too Converted For Marine Use
Barracuda is it's master name, hither it is live on completing a twoscore yr restoration
The master possessor had 2 engines for it. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 race motor as well as a pleasance motor. He would switch them out on race days, equally the race motor had dry out stack exhausts on it. The exhaust cooling manifolds were constitute inwards the boat. The boat was also used to describe the kickoff hydrofoil inwards its early on testing.
The previous possessor took the engines out as well as donated them to the Smithsonian museum, kind of. He had person else deliver them, simply that guy didn't acquit through, as well as sold them for profits instead
Several months afterward the electrical current possessor bought this boat, as well as tried to instruct the engines from the Smithsonian, at that spot was an advertising inwards Hemmings Motor News for 2 Curtis 0X5 aircraft engines that were Dodge conversions.
After calling the dealer as well as bespeak where he got them, he said he purchased them from a guy from Grand Island NY who was on his agency to the Smithsonian to donate them
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