{"id":3355,"date":"2019-03-02T10:44:27","date_gmt":"2019-03-02T16:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/?p=3355"},"modified":"2019-03-02T10:57:46","modified_gmt":"2019-03-02T16:57:46","slug":"forgotton-flathead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/forgotton-flathead\/","title":{"rendered":"Forgotton Flathead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/flathead_forgotton.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/flathead_forgotton.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/flathead_forgotton-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/flathead_forgotton-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption> <br \/>Smith Jiggler conversion for V8 60<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Aftermarket V8-60 by Texan T. Noah \u201cTiny\u201d Smith Jr.,  engine developer of a unique and successful V8-60 engine found in prewar Midgets. Sounds like it worked as well as it looked. Who wouldn&#8217;t like all that sculptured cast aluminum&#8230;the fins, etc.  The article stated the company didn&#8217;t make many of these (expensive at the time). Probably never ended up in a engine in a race boat. If one did, let us know.<br \/>Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hotrod.com\/articles\/hrxp-1111-tiny-smith-flathead-ford-jiggler-v8-60\/amp\/?fbclid=IwAR0Mvl9AbsHnvAuYjiC_ZxGWcfqaKV_tsyf0fmsyuRlcB7taTKXa2Ss_C28\">story<\/a> <br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aftermarket V8-60 by Texan T. Noah \u201cTiny\u201d Smith Jr., engine developer of a unique and successful V8-60 engine found in prewar Midgets. Sounds like it worked as well as it looked. Who wouldn&#8217;t like all that sculptured cast aluminum&#8230;the fins, etc. The article stated the company didn&#8217;t make many of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff-being-posted-on-facebook","category-tidbits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3355"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3360,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3355\/revisions\/3360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}