L29 Racing Head Conversion

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01 Feb 2008 14:17 #9375 by alsancle

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I've always liked the L29, but my dad has a bit of an 812 bias and he talked me out of buying one back when the getting was good.

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31 Jan 2008 20:09 #9366 by Chris Summers

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Check under the hood of Mike H.'s L-29. Maybe that's his secret to outrunning the 812s...

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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

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31 Jan 2008 16:24 #9360 by RandyEma

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Hello I pulled my file this morning and found a letter from Robert Roof saying that the company only built one head ,and he had no memory of who it was sold to . But he did remember scrapping the pattern work. Randy

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31 Jan 2008 02:08 #9357 by RandyEma

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Hello Roof made one or some of those heads I know of none existing today .Randy

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29 Jan 2008 18:26 #9334 by alsancle

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Bob Swanson posted this over on the HAMB (traditional hot rod forum). It's from 1935 and shows a overhead valve conversion for a L29 Cord (cost $450.00). Has anyone ever seen one of these in person?

[url:y1qqsc0t]http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=406049&d=1201486553[/url:y1qqsc0t]

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