Vintage automobile factories

I believe it is an optical illusion, but when I saw the engine I circled at first glance I thought it had a turbo on it.

 

Suckers for Tuckers

 

I think it is a Torque Converter on the engine behind it, but that is also strange as I have never seen a torque converter mounted to an engines flexplate at a factory before, they have always attached to the transmission, so I don't know? But I have never seen a Factory Slant 6 Turbo.

 

I am used to see the vertical version of that engine



As used in one of these



or these



But they did make a few for Light Fixed wing A/C also, Tucker was the last Nail in the Coffin for Franklin A/C Engines, not related to the Aircooled Franklin Cars of the early 20th Century

 

I came to the same conclusion.

 

There isn't anything behind those engines, except a bellhousing and flywheel or most likely a flexplate (because most of them ended up connected to automatics. So, why do double work, when avoidable?), so that the engine could get started

 

'56 Continental Mark II assembly

 

That was craftsmanship. I would have love to have visited that, or the Eldorado Brougham assembly’s lines.

 

Or both. The Continentals spent most of their production hours getting their numerous coats of paint. I wish that Ford's management had continued Mark II production for at least one year more, so that it could get a factory-installed M.E.L. engine for '58

 

Doing the River Rouge engine drop