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• That thing got a hemi?...... *PIC*
  • Just add nitromethane! *NM*
  • Do they ever crank up those things at shows? Got to be outright painful to be in the same county! *NM*
  • I wonder how many of those ended up in early rails, rods, customs etc. *NM*
    • Not too sure. Did people put 331 Hemis in drag cars? *NM*
      • I would assume so except maybe not fluid drives *NM*
        • A lot of that Civil Defense stuff was retained for years before it was forgotten. Due to the cost of getting a siren down off the roof of a building, I'd bet some are still out there *NM*
  • Way cool piece of history...can't imagine how loud that is... *NM*
  • Those hemi powered Victory Sirens were a topic of discussion here... *LINK*
    • Early Hemis also used to be used for emergency generators in large buildings like hospitals. A former neighbor worked for a Honeywell division that serviced gensets, and remarked that some old buildings still had Hemis for backup, or did in the early part of his career. *PIC*
      • Our family farm had a '57 Industrial Hemi chugging behind the irrigation well into the early '70s - when replaced with a Ford 429 industrial gaseous fuel engine