So, what happened here?

It broke.

it's a gen 3 hemi engine I believe.

Stress on a V8 tries to split the banks.
5.0 mustang blocks were notoriously weak in that area
and tend to split in half above 500 hp.

But I doubt that was the cause, I'd suspect a valve train
failure resulting in extreme downward pressure on the cam
which cracked the block. Possibly a VVT failure?
Or not.

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I miss those old hamburger stands. The burgers were better than modern fast food.
The first fast food place I ever experienced was when I was 12 years old. There was a Red Barn in the "big" town nearby. A cheeseburger was 25 cents and it had more than an ounce of beef in it. You could get a burger, fries, and a shake for less than a dollar.

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We've got 3 small town hamburger chains within 30 minutes of me, prices sure have gone up compared to that sign but the food quality is still up there. All locally owned, each chain has two or three stores in two small towns, all drive thru only.

There were several of those in the Tampa area back in the early-mid 90s. I think Checkers and Hookers were 2 of them. Great burgers, drive through only.

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1897 Amoskeag steam-powered fire engine of the Boston Fire Department. Weighing 17,000 pounds (7.700 kg). Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Ca. 1919.
Now that is a big fire engine!

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U.S.Army Spruce Division truck hauling in western Washington.ca.1918

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Children at city dump. Ambridge in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, in 1938. (Photograph by Arthur Rothstein).

The string of photos above strikes me as especially good.

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^ we're going to need some background info on that one!

According to https://www.boredpanda.com/rare-historical-photos/

Trying to find a bit more info

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Kinda hot!

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August 1910. Every one of here was working in the cotton mill at North Pownal, Vermont, and they were running a small force. Dave Noel, 14; Theodore Momeady, 15, working three years. Albert Sylvester, 16, working one year; Eugene Willett, 13, working one year; Arthur Noel, 15, working one year; P. Tetro, 15, working one year.

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Led Zep's Bonham in his t-bucket

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Wife is out of town, or he is single.

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Pack of cigarettes in the pocket of the middle guy?

That block looks too clean - possibly never run? If they put a wrong size component in or over-tightened something during the build a flaw in the casting could have maybe caused that?

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Love him or hate him, Union General Dan Sickles was nothing if not a character. He married a 15 year old; he brought a prostitute to Congress; he killed his young wife’s lover, in front of the White House, and got away with it using the first ever plea of “not guilty due to temporary insanity”. He rose to Corps command (the only Corps commander, on either side at Gettysburg, who was not a West Pointer).
After advancing his Corps to the Peach Orchard on the 2nd Day at Gettysburg, forming an indefensible salient (ill conceived at best, Court Martialable at worst), Dan got hit in the leg by a cannon ball. He would have the mangled leg amputated 2 hours later.
In true Sickles fashion, he donated the leg to the Army Medical Corps museum. Here he would visit the leg on the anniversary of his wounding, often bringing guests and offering a toast. (The cannon ball is for illustration only and is not the one that took his leg.)
Dan was an early proponent of memorializing the Gettysburg Battlefield. He served prominently on the New York monument commission, until some $27,000 (worth close to a million dollars in today’s money) turned up missing.
When asked where his monument at Gettysburg was (the other Union Corps Commanders all have grand equestrian statues), he would say “Why the whole battlefield is my monument”. There is a small monument that marks where he was wounded.

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If you're ever driving up the 20 mile stretch of the Kern River, there's a hamburger stand at McNally's (home of the 40 oz Porterhouse) that has great burgers. Only open in summer....

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Just one man's dream!

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I loved the fact that someone challenged the Hemi's dominance in Top Fuel. The "Cammer" showed some real potential. Unfortunately, Ford lost interest when NASCAR banned it, and the NHRA would not allow it in Super Stock and, later, Pro Stock.

Jim Green's Performance Center was just a few miles from my house. He won the NHRA Funny Car world championship in 1972 (I believe, could have been +/- a year). Hemi powered car, though. He had the world's biggest collection of Cammers, and my neighbor worked for him. I got to spend a lot of time around those motors. I wish the concept had been allowed to compete. I thought it represented a worthwhile step forward in American V-8's.

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The Ford Cammer was the only production engine to have fully machined intake, exhaust ports and combustion chamber. It was designed from the start as a high RPM, endurance race engine with no compromise

A friend of mine's dad used to build and deal in SOHC motors for many years. He spotted one in an AC Cobra at a local car show in 2006, which seemed like an awesome application for one.

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And now I work here (where we make protons by stripping electrons off of H- ions and the accelerate them to 90% of the speed of light and bombard liquid mercury to produce neutrons):

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And you can't even stockpile the neutrons and keep them for use later in the day! ;)


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Eureka Springs, Arkansas c.1880
According to Native American legends, a renowned Healing Spring in Eureka Springs existed.
Upon the arrival of European Americans, they, too, believed in the extraordinary healing powers of the natural springs. One notable figure, Dr. Alvah Jackson, discovered a significant spring in 1856 and claimed that its waters had cured his eye ailments. During the Civil War, Dr. Jackson even established a hospital within a local cave, utilizing the spring waters to treat his patients. Following the war, he marketed the spring waters as "Dr. Jackson's Eye Water."
In 1879, Judge J.B. Saunders, a friend of Dr. Jackson, credited the spring waters for curing his debilitating disease. This remarkable turnaround prompted Saunders to spread the word about Eureka Springs, generating interest among friends and family across the state. Soon enough, Eureka Springs underwent a rapid transformation, evolving from a small spa village into a thriving city and a popular tourist destination.
On February 14, 1880, Eureka Springs was officially incorporated as a city. By 1881, it had become Arkansas's fourth-largest city, and by 1889, it stood as the second-largest, following Little Rock.
After serving as the governor of Arkansas during the Reconstruction era, Republican Powell Clayton settled in Eureka Springs in 1872. With an entrepreneurial spirit, Clayton promoted the city and its commercial interests, marketing it as an ideal retirement community for the affluent. Eureka Springs soon gained a reputation for offering a gracious and opulent lifestyle.
In 1882, the Eureka Improvement Company was formed to attract a railroad to the city, making it more accessible and transforming it into a popular vacation resort. Numerous homes and businesses were constructed within a couple of years, including notable landmarks such as the Crescent Hotel in 1886, the Basin Park Hotel in 1905, and the New Orleans Hotel and Spa in 1892 along Spring Street.
These well-preserved Victorian buildings contribute to the city's unique charm, forming a cohesive streetscape recognized for its architectural quality. Some structures still serve their original purposes, while others have been repurposed for various uses.
The only recorded bank robbery in Eureka Springs occurred on September 27, 1922, when a group of outlaws from Oklahoma attempted to rob the First National Bank. The robbery was foiled, resulting in the deaths of three outlaws and injuries to the remaining two. Today, this historical event is reenacted annually during the antique car parade, the longest-running car show in Northwest Arkansas.

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That sounds pretty interesting, Mike. What's the limit you can accelerate the electrons to? 90% of c sounds amazing! What do you do with the neutrons you generate? Smash them?


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It must be a sad pizza town when the best pizza is at a Mexican place. :eek:

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Since we're accelerating H- ions (basically a hydrogen atom with an extra electron added) we're sort of limited to 1.3 GeV of energy due to a phenomena known as Lorentz stripping (the electrons come off by themselves before we strip them). So, 90% is about the limit.

We are currently the world record holder for a pulsed neutron source though. In fact, we broke our own record just this week and are currently operating at 1.7 MW of beam power (60 pulses of protons per second with about 1x10^15 protons per pulse at ~1.1 GeV).

We produce neutrons for condensed matter physics and fundamental neutron physics experiments. I actually work on the mercury target side of the house, so take whatever I said above about the accelerator with a grain of salt.

The target module (taken through 1 m of lead glass as it is reading about 50,000 rads/hr):

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If you google "sns mercury target", a lot of the photos are mine. :)

Pretty cool Mike.

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Adirondack (New York) logger’s camp mess hall, early 20th century.

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Dude! NOS! It's got what electrons need!

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A typical family at the time. Taken in the Midwest sometime around 1900.

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I bet the old man was thinks "damn kids ruined a perfectly good car, and I can't wait for that stupid hot rod fad to die out".

Man, ^^^^^that thing has 6 X 2's on it!

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I am gonna go take the short cut!

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If you google "sns mercury target", a lot of the photos are mine.

I did google it, Mike, and still have no clue what you guys do but thought it was pretty cool that the dudes that discovered the neutron, the electron and the proton were buddies. Nice pics BTW.

Random:

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Ford Marmon Herrington Artillery Tractor

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Skagit River Hotel, Barron, Washington, 1890.