First off, an apology. The other day I totally screwed the pooch and identified a 1929 Dodge flatead four banger as a Crosley mill. Gino Ofria had sent the photos over and I screwed up the order when I cataloged them. I knew that the little COBRA sheetmetal engine was an OHV mill but thought that the flattie was an earlier engine or something of that sort. It was an earlier engine…from a different company! Anyway, because of this horrendous mistake, I gave myself forty lashes with a wet timing belt as punishment. My wife is still looking at me funny.

Ok, so on to happier subjects like identifying that totally weird looking engine we showed you a couple photos of yesterday.  That engine is a 1913 Peugeot L45 of which three were originally made and of those three, you are looking at the only known survivor. This was the engine that won the 1916 Indy 500 and according to the Valley Head Service guys, this baby was space age tech for its day with dual overhead cams and a bunch of other stuff that didn’t start appearing in mass produced engines for many, many decades. This engine went into a car owned by the famous Lindley Bothwell. Bothwell was a big time California citrus farmer and also the dude who invented the “moving card trick” that is often seen at stadiums. This is the deal where people all hold up cars of different colors to form large pictures, flags, etc. An oddly cool footnote in history is Mr Bothwell!

Ok, now onto today’s challenge – we’re jumping back to the east coast at Custom Auto Machine in Weymouth, Massachusetts. Tell us what this intake manifold fits! There are two correct answers (two different manufacturers engine families!) — give us your best guess!