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Re: My non-motorcycle project
« Reply #25 on: May 17, 2015, 01:14:58 PM »
Yes, they are the same engine. Rover bought the tooling from GM in the 60's when GM gave up on the engine.
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Re: My non-motorcycle project
« Reply #26 on: May 17, 2015, 08:09:21 PM »
I saw the cars I described, still there of you want another. Several midgets and a MGB coup. Search Google maps 106 E 1st St, Oilton OK, and when you get a street view, pan around and click between the two houses boarded up.  Talk about invaision of privacy, all his cars are right there,
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Re: My non-motorcycle project
« Reply #27 on: May 18, 2015, 10:08:14 PM »
 I know a guy that built a mini rod pulling tractor with 2 inline olds aluminum V8's. They had a minimum weight and it went under. It was finally defeated by the rulemakers.
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Re: My non-motorcycle project
« Reply #28 on: May 19, 2015, 01:55:03 AM »
Quote from: Bankerdanny on May 17, 2015, 01:14:58 PM
Yes, they are the same engine. Rover bought the tooling from GM in the 60's when GM gave up on the engine.

I don't know how interchangeable the Olds and Rover engines were after Rover got the tooling especially as years went by and the engine evolved but the general story is right. I hardly know anything about them and have only seen one and the one I saw was highly modified.
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Re: My non-motorcycle project
« Reply #29 on: May 19, 2015, 08:36:10 AM »
My understanding from the MG V8 swap guys is that compatibility is high through the 4.6L version.
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Re: My non-motorcycle project
« Reply #30 on: May 19, 2015, 10:50:35 AM »
Great job on that roadster!
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Re: My non-motorcycle project
« Reply #31 on: May 23, 2015, 12:33:31 AM »
I will go back through Oilton on the way to races at hallet again in September if anyone wants to inquire on theat hard top.
For some reason I doubt anything will happen to it in the mean time.  It's been there since before I ever saw it 15 years ago.

As for the midgets, there is another one that is better, but still dead.
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Re: My non-motorcycle project
« Reply #32 on: May 23, 2015, 10:06:45 AM »
I'm actually too tall to drive, or even sit in, a midget. A friend of mine had a Sprite (same car, British badge engineering), even in high school I couldn't wedge myself into the driver's seat.

I fit just fine however in Spitfires. My dad restored a '63 Spitfire when I was in grade school.
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Re: My non-motorcycle project
« Reply #33 on: May 23, 2015, 06:01:54 PM »
I used to fit a midget, I rode in one not too long ago and it wasn't too bad. I rode in a Miata, too, but I didn't fit. It would have been a real  challenge to do it with the top down.
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