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We just traded our 2009 Ford Flex SEL, with 176,000 miles, on a new Flex Limited. Got ALL the bells and whistles including a few I didn't necessarily want (like roof rails and skylights).

The old Flex had the basic 3.5 L Duratec V6 engine putting out 285 hp. It still had plenty of get up and go. The new Flex has the 3.5L turbocharged EcoBoost engine with 365 horsepower and 350 lb.-ft. of torque, and the the six-speed SelectShift transmission with paddle shifters. Get out of my way !!

We also have an Expedition and we can put just about anything into the Flex that will fit in the Expedition and get better mileage doing it.

Our daughter has a Fusion. Son has the 5th Generation Taurus that was my wife's daily driver before we got the first Flex. We got rid of the F-150 a couple of years ago (redundant with the Expedition and a utility trailer) and even the motor home is on a Ford Chassis. Get the picture?
 
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Not a Foord, but:

https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2017/...eapolis-moline-udlx-comfortractor/?refer=news

The challenge has haunted designers and engineers since the dawn of time: Take an existing product, and expand its functionality to broaden the market. In 1938, farm tractor manufacturer Minneapolis-Moline applied this Swiss Army Knife approach to its Model U series, resulting in the U Deluxe (or UDLX), an enclosed tractor capable of plowing fields during the day and driving to town in its off-hours. Just 100 examples were sold, and today, roughly 25 remain in restored condition. On Friday, March 31, a show-ready 1938 Minneapolis-Moline UDLX heads to auction in Davenport, Iowa, a star attraction in Mecum’s Spring Classic Gone Farmin’ sale.
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http://www.enginelabs.com/engine-te...mpaign=the-immortal-offenhauser-racing-engine

In the history of auto racing, there’s really nothing else like the Offenhauser “Big 4” engines. This engine was fundamentally designed in the 1920s and refined in the 1930s, and it has been winning races since its inception. The same design dominated Indianapolis racing throughout the 1950s and into the 1960s. As late as the mid-1970s, Offenhauser-powered cars continued to win the Indy 500 year after year.


The Offenhauser engine was actually conceived by Harry Arminius Miller, who was a well-known and respected automobile and racecar designer in the 1920s. A Miller-designed car won the 1922 Indy 500, and won again four more times in that decade.

Miller was so prominent in his field that when Leon Duray took two Miller Type 91 front-wheel-drive cars to race in Europe in 1928, Ettore Bugatti bought both of the cars to learn how the American racers were built. Bugatti’s next engine bore a striking resemblance to the Miller engine.
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When I was in grade school, I used to read a series of books about racing which featured a front-wheel drive Offenhauser car. I can't remember much about it now. That was a couple o' three years ago...


;) ;) :D
 
4est_4est_Gump said:
When I was in grade school, I used to read a series of books about racing which featured a front-wheel drive Offenhauser car. I can't remember much about it now. That was a couple o' three years ago...


;) ;) :D
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Might have been an Indy type car, many had Offenhauser engines.
 
The first book was about American racing, but after one or two books, if I remember correctly, our hero headed off to conquer Europe too...


;) ;)

... back then, it was what Americans did.
 
Yep, Europe needs conquerizing from time to time.


https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2017/...d-the-army-of-the-jeeps-potential/?refer=news


There is much misunderstanding in jeep histories about testing at Holabird. The torture tests there were more or less legendary at the time, and always provided dramatic footage for the newsreels or pictures for the Sunday section. Various diabolical facilities were set up to deliver extreme punishment and stress tested vehicles to their limits and ween out the inadequate and to find and address the weaknesses of the survivors. Major Lawes, the Commanding Officer was not kidding when he promised Crist and Probst he would break their truck, which was after all the whole idea.

Even in a rare instance where the victim survived the specified limits, it then would be taken even further beyond those limits just to see where something finally did let go. Left, is a picture of the dramatic “Hell Hole” but, there were other more grinding, ruinous tests. Lt. Rifkin quotes an unnamed contemporary writer who compares the tests to rolling a vehicle down the Grand Canyon, or a QMC transport man as bragging that …that test course tortures a truck like an inquisitional rack, and if a truck has anything to confess, it confesses. Because some pilot vehicles did better than others at first blush, there has grown up a misunderstanding about passing or failing a test at Holabird.
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As it turned out, a lot of WW2 jeeps were made by Ford, but the good ones were made by Willys . . . now a division of Chrysler known simply as . . . Jeep.
 
I aspire to be a headliner one of these days.



Everyone will have to consume their mandatory two drinks before I take the stage...
 
I'll wager on you.


https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2017/...f-the-worlds-most-demanding-races/?refer=news


It started out as little more than a lark, an informal competition among off-road racers to see who could make it from one end of the Baja peninsula to the other the quickest. And while big sponsor dollars – and big-money race rigs – have become part and parcel of the Baja 1000 over the intervening 50 years, it still remains one of the most grueling races on the planet.

As described in the mid- to late 1960s, whatever roads ultimately connected Ensenada, about 35 miles south of the American border, and La Paz, about 50 miles from the tip of the peninsula, were little more than “cowpaths designed by the devil himself.” Much of the inland area between the two locales – about 900 miles distant – remained undeveloped wilderness, strewn with cacti, rocks, and dust. In other words, a perfect test of ruggedness and reliability.
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Now, something like that is not considered a race over desolation but ecoterrorism over the fragile environment that is the glue that holds our entire climate and biomass together...


More important than ice-caps.
 
Baja,Dakar and any of that ilk are entertaining to watch. Chopper filmed highlights i mean:)
I watch you tube clips of them and Isle of man TT highlights, Often.
 
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