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Father and son “Penny Pinchers” in their respective
classes, the Lloyd boys certainly made an impression on
the judges – and gave us a very cool side-story to boot.

It would have been easy to drop in a small-block ould have been easy to drop in a small-block
It w the motor and stock auto trans were both good, in
the motor and stock auto trans were both good, in
or fl athead and call it good, but that just wouldn’t do. they went.
A buddy of his who’s into Jaguars was replacing the The original porcelain exhaust was broken, and
4.2 liter straight six in a current project because he its replacement was created from the remnants
was under the impression that the engine was frozen. of his grandmother’s old brass bed. There were
Rick picked it up cheap and went to work on it. After just enough railings left in good enough shape to
a couple minor fi xes and a bunch of WD-40, he soon complete a set of 6 brass zoomies. When that sexy
had that motor running. And the longer he ran it, the Jag six is in full song, it sounds like the world’s
sweeter it sounded. Now that he had established that largest swarm of wasps is pissed off and headed

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