Anyone Else Fascinated By Old Locomotives?

[Murray20c8]

3 exhausts, 2 at rear and one side pipe

HAH! Obviously you've never been a Hot Rodder! Those are not a side pipes! They are tire warmers!

 

[Dave91TM]

If you mirror the image it shows the other side pipe.

Well then we'd have 4 exhausts truly remarkable. Gee I wonder if the hooligans made it past the train?

 

[Dave91TM]

HAH! Obviously you've never been a Hot Rodder! Those are not a side pipes! They are tire warmers!

Ok , so there must be a control to switch from rear exhaust to side exhaust. Neato eh? Isn't there something like that on the C8's? (LOL)

 

[DW Ruby]

Well then we'd have 4 exhausts truly remarkable. Gee I wonder if the hooligans made it past the train?

My guess is the train caught the tail end of their 'rig', spun them into the ditch where they hit the opposing bank causing end over end rolls until they came to rest against a prolific oak tree.
They walked away unscathed, of course.
It did, however, take them over 20 minutes to get their 'rig' disconnected from the tree and back onto the roadway.

 

[Murray20c8]

My guess is the train caught the tail end of their 'rig', spun them into the ditch where they hit the opposing bank causing end over end rolls until they came to rest against a prolific oak tree.

It's the old "Immovable object meets an irresistible force"! Alternate dimensions come in to play here.

 

[Black 03 Z06]

 

[Black 03 Z06]

 

[Black 03 Z06]

Educational Time. I am the teacher but may not be right. Our buddy Dave is remarkable about pointing out oddities in pictures and he is usually right. The "Teenage Hot Rodders" and train posted below he noticed that the artist did not know much about cars. V8 in appearance but only three exhaust pipes like a V6.

It took some time to find a real pic to show why. The car on the far side is powered by a "Nailhead" Buick with its tell tale vertical valve covers. The closest car, I think it sports a vintage 1950's Oldsmobile engine, a V8 for certain but only 3 exhaust pipes! They used a cylinder head referred to as a "Siamese" design where two cylinders share a common exhaust port. Ford Flatheads were similar. While the Olds was a heavy engine lots of drag racers used them because they were so strong, even in supercharged classes.

So Dave keep looking, you see stuff I never do! Somebody please correct me if I am wrong.

T buckets having a go

 

[Dave91TM]

Educational Time. I am the teacher but may not be right. Our buddy Dave is remarkable about pointing out oddities in pictures and he is usually right. The "Teenage Hot Rodders" and train posted below he noticed that the artist did not know much about cars. V8 in appearance but only three exhaust pipes like a V6.

It took some time to find a real pic to show why. The car on the far side is powered by a "Nailhead" Buick with its tell tale vertical valve covers. The closest car, I think it sports a vintage 1950's Oldsmobile engine, a V8 for certain but only 3 exhaust pipes! They used a cylinder head referred to as a "Siamese" design where two cylinders share a common exhaust port. Ford Flatheads were similar. While the Olds was a heavy engine lots of drag racers used them because they were so strong, even in supercharged classes.

So Dave keep looking, you see stuff I never do! Somebody please correct me if I am wrong.


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T buckets having a go

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Thanks for clearing that up Black, I have learned something today, and I apologize if I indicated the artist was incorrect. Now who can explain the dual exhaust at the rear?

 

[Black 03 Z06]

Morning Dave. Common practice was to use "cut outs" to divert the exhaust out of the headers into a muffled exhaust system. I think a similar thing is used on the C8 using electronics versus a steel plate having to be re and re'd in the old days.

 

[Murray20c8]

Guys, quit trying to justify the artist. He simply knows nothing.
The engineer is 1/4 the size of the hot rodders! LOL

 

[Black 03 Z06]

Maybe it is an amusement park train.

 

[DW Ruby]

Guys, quit trying to justify the artist. He simply knows nothing.
The engineer is 1/4 the size of the hot rodders! LOL

He knows there is danger lurking ahead for those boys.

 

[Black 03 Z06]

 

[Dave91TM]

Guys, quit trying to justify the artist. He simply knows nothing.
The engineer is 1/4 the size of the hot rodders! LOL

Yer right, there is really no need to justify fantasy, it just entertainment.

 

[Black 03 Z06]

 

[Rruuff Day]

Thanks for clearing that up Black, I have learned something today, and I apologize if I indicated the artist was incorrect. Now who can explain the dual exhaust at the rear?

The dual exhaust at the rear are indeed for exhaust. The side pipes are obviously aftermarket hand warmers....

 

[Black 03 Z06]

 

[Dave91TM]

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They don't really look like as bunch of happy campers.

 

[Rruuff Day]

They don't really look like as bunch of happy campers.

The kid top right obviously just got the job today. In 40 years he will look like the rest of them...