Blowing up an engine in one of your hot rods sucks, but it might even be worse to get a replacement engine that you expect to be good only to find out it is also junk. Unfortunately for the gang at Iron Trap, that’s exactly the scenario with the “Beautiful” Ford Coupe which overheated bad and needed a new engine. Check it out.
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Recently when driving the 1934 Ford Coupe “Beautiful”, Matt overheated the stock engine and set the radiator cap into orbit. Beautiful is a standard model so there is no coolant temperature gauge from factory, but we plan to add one ASAP. Fast forward a few weeks and we were offered a 59ab flathead and two side shift transmissions for a pair of 1937 Ford bumpers. The lifter valley looked extremely clean and the gentleman’s father had it rebuilt and never run. The engine did sit a number of years since rebuilding so Matt and Steve pull the heads and intake to look everything over before starting and things just seem to get worse from there….
That’s the chance you take buying engines from private individuals.Most are honest but there’s always those that are shady.