A while back I helped the guys and good friends of mine from Pirate Kustomz at a car show in Fredericia. We were there advertizing their workshops in metal shaping, and that got me to talk to Morten, who drives a Mercury Monetery highway patrol car and has a t-shirt designing company named Rare Dog designs.
We got to talking old Fords, and he told me, his father used to own a Model A, which he sold just a few years back. I told him, I was on the lookout for a Kölner engine, and he said, that his father might have one still. Of course, I got interested, but he couldn't remember, if his dad had sold it with the car.
So I gave him my phone number, and said, if his father found it and wanted to sell it, I would be very interested in buying it. Being a old-car-guy himself, Morten knew how quick answers are easing on a car-guys soul, and therefore he got back to me the same night, confirming his father was willing to sell the engine.
His father had told him, it was an engine off an old water pump from the danish civil defence (like the US national guard). It shouldn't have run for very long, the cylinders had good compression and the engine oil was still clear.
I aranged with Morten, that we would find a suiting weekend for me to pick it up.
And so it came to be this past weekend, where my girlfriend and me were at the Gråsten Oldtimer meeting, visiting my clubmates from the Jalopies Denmark. Bringing the mob-in-law's (Svigermafiaen) car and trailer for the engine, I desided to haul my DKW motorcycle to Avnbøl, where we would sleep for the weekend, so I could ride that to the meeting.
The cruising at Gråsten Oldtimer takes place in beautiful surroundings:
Leif, a friend of mine, had just maneged to get his '61 Chevy driveable in the week just before the cruise:
Some of the clubs cars (sunday morning):
On the way back to Copenhagen, we stopped in at Mortens fathers, to pick up the motor. And there it was: a G28T block with the G38T head on it, downdraft Solex carburator, flanged exhaust manifold, special water pump and a Scintilla magneto on top. The price was good and the deal got struck! And then Mortens father said: "It's heavy!" I thought, we seemed to by three strong men, we sould be able to lift it, but no.
Being a voulenteer firefigther, the father knew a local guy, who had the time to help us load it on the trailer, so we were four men to lift it. It got tied down next to my motorcycle, and away we went for the ride home.
We stoped in at Middelfart to get something to eat, and I tried their de-luxe burger with beef tenderloin:
Well at home, I sat the engine down outside, because the wheather was nice, and this winter has been too long!
The last couple of days have been spend disasembling it, but today I got my father in law to help me make a wash tub out of an old oil drum:
Tomorrow I'll take out the old engine and start fitting the parts needed to make the G28T fit in Ole-Henry.
Keep 'em kruzin - and stopping!
Dannerr
