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The engine nowadays.

This is how I found the motor. After taking out a whole pile of wires everything worked much better. The motor is a 199cid. straight six. When I took it apart it appeared to have a hole in one of the pistons and two other cylinders had a compression of zero (it still ran though!) but this explained the enormous amount of smoke coming out of the motor while running.

The block in the back yard with some fresh blue paint. Unfortunately not the original color, maybe next time.

The motor on the kitchen table right next to the bread toaster after a complete overhaul (the motor, not the toaster). Anybody who sees this picture says; you must have a very nice wife....but she wasn't home that weekend.

Ready.

Old and new ignition.

In the lower left corner of this picture you can see a strange apparatus which is a gas-vaporiser. This car runs on gasoline as well as natural gas, a propane kind of  gas which is held liquid under pressure in a pressure tank in the boot. When this gas vaporizes before it goes to the (standard) carburetor it cools of to ici temperatures-  and is heated in the vaporizers. First electrical and when the engine temperature is right with water from the cooling system. In the Netherlands it's a quait common fuel for cars, the only thing you need is the installation and hardened valve seats.

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