someone posted their yardsale score on facebook... dang... sweet haul!

 

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1191694749641601&set=pcb.2593343027679159

I don't know why guys do this... it's not the 1st time I've seen 3 stacked blowers. I imagine only one has screws, the others are probably pass through

 

https://www.facebook.com/reel/505424279076157

superchargers photography by Matthew Porter

https://manoftheworld.com/blogs/articles/holy-motors

complete supercharger kit, with the original mounting bracket for a 1972 Mr. Norm's Dodge Demon, is up for sale

https://www.facebook.com/commerce/listing/372423592137731/?media_id=1&ref=share_attachment

In 1925 Robert Paxton McCulloch was 14 years old when he inherited part of a fortune, later in life, he bought the London Bridge and moved it to Arizona... in between, he raced, made superchargers, and chainsaws

His grandfather, John I. Beggs, made his fortune by implementing Thomas Edison's electrical powerplants in cities around the world, manufacturing and selling electric trolley cars, and founding Milwaukee's public utility system. McCulloch, along with his two siblings, inherited his grandfather's fortune in 1925.

McCulloch graduated from Stanford with a degree in engineering.

While still an undergraduate Milwaukee-based Robert McCulloch was making his mark in the world of speed. He raced in outboard-motor hydroplane contests in more than 15 states and Canada, winning two class championships and collecting some 50 trophies.

Two years after he graduated from Stanford University, he married Barbra Ann Briggs, whose father was Stephen Foster Briggs of Briggs and Stratton.

McCulloch’s first business target was auto racing. He and his team built a four-cylinder two-stroke engine of one liter from which 90 bhp were extracted. Targeting the compact unit at midget racing, McCulloch installed it in a four-wheel-drive chassis.

Taking note of the wave of supercharger launches by Duesenberg, Graham and Auburn, in 1935 Robert McCulloch turned his talents to a compressor suitable for the ubiquitous Ford V-8. The resulting McCulloch Supercharger was launched in 1937 as an $85 kit. More than 5,000 superchargers were sold before McCulloch ceased producing them after 1941 in order to turn his attention to wartime requirements.

McCulloch had a good war, designing and producing Roots superchargers that were used for railcar engines, generator sets and power units for high-speed patrol and torpedo boats. Shifting operations to California, McCulloch was not idle. His post-war activities included experimental helicopters and the compact two-stroke engines that had always been a passion.

Starting with their first McCulloch-branded chainsaw in 1948, his team engineered breakthroughs in small and light saws that became major money-spinners. Exploiting his middle name, McCulloch poured some of his profits into a new enterprise, Paxton Engineering, set up on May 1, 1950 to explore new business opportunities. He decanted more than $700,000 into development of the Paxton variable-speed centrifugal supercharger that achieved wide acceptance both in the aftermarket and as original equipment for Kaiser, Ford and Studebaker.

Then he made a car prototype designed by Brooks Stevens who ingeniously provided for its hard top to slide backward and down to nest snugly over the rear deck for full convertibility.

https://www.collierautomedia.com/paxton-powered-by-porsche

For anyone that isn't engine/mechanic/car minded, McCulloch might be best known for purchasing the "New" London Bridge, which he moved to Lake Havasu City, Arizona—one of the cities he founded. 

In 1963, on the courthouse steps of Kingman, McCulloch purchased a 26-square-mile parcel of barren desert that would become the site for Lake Havasu City. At the time it was the largest single tract of state land ever sold in Arizona, and the cost per acre was under US$75. 

In 1968, McCulloch was searching for a unique attraction for his city, which eventually took him to London. By the early 1960s it was apparent that John Rennie's 1831 "New" London Bridge was gradually sinking into the River Thames and the City of London Corporation decided that a new bridge was needed. Rather than demolish the existing bridge, they decided to auction the historic landmark.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_P._McCulloch

you might not even remember the Fageol company at all, but they made tractors and busses, but I didn't know they made outboard motors with Pepco superchargers!

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1978205159036954&set=pcb.3203200689919376

meet the Wolfpack of Hershey Pa

https://www.youtube.com/@WolfpackRides/videos

https://www.instagram.com/wolfpack_rides/

https://www.facebook.com/shopwolfpackrides/

I am guessing that some guys stood around looking at this old Vincent, and one guy said "you can't do much with that" and another guy responded "hold my beer, and stand back"

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10222550003599027&set=a.1617402035143

I've never seen a Super Bee with 71 Challenger hood scoops before.

I spotted this in Hot Rod's coverage of the 2022 Power Tour, so I looked online and learned it's Steve Kranick's Bee, and it's supercharged. He bought it from a coworker who mentioned that the car had been in a wreck and had been sitting in his garage since 1985, and it only had 43,000 miles

https://moparconnectionmagazine.com/gallery-steve-kranicks-supercharged-69-dodge-super-bee/

4 speed, supercharged, white Hertz GT 350 coming to auction again. One of only 71 in white

 

full gallery at https://fordauthority.com/2022/01/1966-shelby-gt350h-fastback-headed-to-kissimme-auction/

https://fordauthority.com/2022/07/1966-ford-mustang-shelby-gt350h-is-headed-to-auction-once-again/#comments

Spokane 1959

 http://www.landracing.com/forum/index.php?topic=5202.2145

a GE engineer bought a brand-new Shelby GT350 Fastback in 1966 and after 56 years, he finally decided to sell it at auction today, and got nearly $400,000, for the super charged 289, with 491 hp, and only 29,431 miles

6S2045 has had the rare good fortune to be an original owner car until today, and that owner was able to take great care of it. 

By the early 1970s the government disallowed the use of premium fuels in  New York State, leaving 87-octane gasoline as the best that high-compression, high-performance engines could get at the gas stations, so, the owner lowered the compression ratio to avoid engine damage. 

He discovered that the cylinder heads from the 351 Windsor small-block offered more volume in the combustion chambers, and polished and CCd the chambers and installing stainless 1.9-inch intake and 1.6-inch exhaust valves. 

With compression lowered from 10.3:1 to 9.25:1, the engine pulled 491 HP at 6,000 RPM with a B&M Super Street camshaft and racing hydraulic lifters

 

https://www.mecum.com/lots/SC0522-502543/1966-shelby-gt350-fastback

well, this is tiny but cool

 

http://vectorville.blogspot.com/2021/09/metropolitan.html

Coincidentally I posted about Clark Gables dozer last week, now here's his Tbird, upgraded with a supercharger

Clark Gable picking up his T-Bird after having a McCulloch supercharger installed. I have seen this car and talked to the actor on a couple of occasions. He was a car guy through and through, and liked fast cars. He had a ranch in Encino, in the San Fernando Valley off of Ventura Blvd. He used to cruise through Bob's in Toluca Lake in this Bird and frequently stopped to talk to guys about cars.

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/vintage-shots-from-days-gone-by-part-2.1154030/page-258#post-13315152

Great googly moogly

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1614905241995596&id=100004284075892

I can't remember how long it's been since I've seen a supercharger on the side of a straight 6

I'm surprised more guys haven't went Fast and Furious with their 70-71 Chargers, after all, enough guys went Dukes of Hazard with their '69s

you're doing something right when Max Grundy has immortalized your car!

it was finally brought into a warehouse for a professional photo shoot, and featured in Hot Rod

and they have a couple dozen photos, and a full write up, well, onl5 5 months after I scooped them (ha!)  https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2019/06/so-after-9-years-of-waiting-to-see-if.html

https://www.hotrod.com/articles/24-cylinders-12-blowers-power-peterbilt

so after 9 years of waiting to see if the 24 cylinder diesel with 8 superchargers was ever going to get completed, I'm surprised to say it has. But no one seems to have seen it.... the guy wants to sell dvds of it instead of drive it or bring it to shows is what I'm thinking

http://thor2471.com/

so, looks like he took it out for one video shoot with a few still photos, and that's it. The video is a waste of time, but if you want to watch someone's ode to how great they are, that's fine by me, but
I'm not going to host a minute of really bad home made chrome porn. This just is worth a look, and that's about it, it's not worth trying to avoid noticing how many times they bolted little skulls, and nameplates but there must be a couple dozen of each because this guy wasn't satisfied until he achieved some mental orgasm of how incredibly amazing his truck was.

This is just the narcissistic trucker version of a useless mall crawler, imho, or Michael Bay's acid trip version of Optimus Prime

This all started back in 2013 https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2013/12/update-on-mike-harrahs-detroit-diesel.html
and finally in Nov 2019 it was photographed professionally in a studio
https://www.hotrod.com/articles/24-cylinders-12-blowers-power-peterbilt/