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Ramblings about Vintage Mopar Performance stuff with the Kingsbury's and Asche's

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Part 1 - The background of the 1949 Plymouth Business Coupe, its owner, and its early life !

So here is the story of my 1949 Plymouth Business Coupe or my entry to the "just how small the world can be" contest - Part 1 - The back ground of the 1949 Plymouth, its owner, and its early life ! My Dad’s first cousin, that he always called "Aunt Thelma" Lewis lived in London Ontario, in a large house on Waterloo Avenue. Her Dad was a builder of large homes and industrial buildings in the early 1900's and by the late 1920’s was a very wealthy man. When the stock market crashed in 1929 the
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As Promised - The story of the "Worlds Fastest Flathead…. Motorcycle !" - part 2

As Promised - The story of the "Worlds Fastest Flathead…. Motorcycle !" - part 2 I am also going to attach two pictures from the 1931 Modern Mechanic which featured contest award winners from the “baby auto” contest. Both these featured car/motorcycle mixes and it was really from this 1931 publication that Grandfather said Fred got the idea for putting a car engine into a motorcycle. But the story didn’t end in 1935. The Plymouth Motorcycle had the engine and transmission removed and well tho
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As Promised - The story of the "Worlds Fastest Flathead…. Motorcycle !" - part 1

As I promised, here is the story of the Worlds Fastest Flathead…. Motorcycle ! 1st off I want to acknowledge that there is an article online on this motorcycle. Please go read it at - http://www.allpar.com/history/plymouth/motorcycle.html Next up I want to make it very clear that in my opinion Jim Benjaminson is one of the most dedicated Plymouth Historians on the planet and I am very happy to call him my hero ! I want to say that right up front, because some of what I am about to say may n
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Twas the night before Christmas, - AoK version

Well Folks - It is that time of year again, with 2014 flying by so fast it must have been powered by a 265 ci flathead ! I know Santa has checked his list to see who was naughty and who was nice. As usually I am on the list of several Corvette, Ford and Chevy owners and maybe even Mrs Claus's naughty list. So while most are thinking about - "Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. The stockings were hung by the chimney wit
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Dec 20th - Update to "AoK announcement on a new Dual Carb intake for the USA flathead 6"

**** Development Update **** Behind the Scenes *** Well as promised a little sneak peak behind the scenes on the development of the new Dual Carb AoK intake. And just to give people an idea of where this process is going, I have also attached the finished AoK triple intake that followed this exact same development process. So since our last update, which to recap was the completion of the core. Unfortunately I dont have a picture of the dual intake core, so I will attached the core fro
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Updated to the - Hatfield and McCoys Mopar Edition ?? Lol.. Nah.. Asche and Kingsburys - AoK

In reply to the request.. here is "the truck" and the Trip to Saskatewan.. It is a 1952 Fargo and the reason I attached the combine in the grainry... its a 1955 Massey Harris, and you guess it ... it has a 265 chrylser flathead in it. The picture of Dad beside the fargo out in Saskatewan was taken as he looked at it and he had no idea, that I would eventually purchase it, bring it back and give it to him for his birthday in Feb 2002. The picture of me with the truck tucked in the garage, i
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Hatfield and McCoys Mopar Edition ?? Lol.. Nah.. Asche and Kingsburys - AoK

Well lots have asked about AoK where that came from, and what is the story behind the Asche and Kingsbury's and to be honest it really isnt as complex as some may think. The Asche thread dates back into 40's and 50's when many members of this branch of AoK were busy driving mopars. George's Dad was a Dodge and Chrysler man, as was his Uncle Harry Hines (who is still alive today). George worked as a mechanic at various garages, as well as started helping his uncle with his stock car. As time p
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AoK announcement on a new Dual Carb intake for the USA flathead 6

Originally Posted 29 November 2014 - 09:54 PM Howdy Folks - As discussed on the forum under various topics, my father Eddy Kingsbury, George Asche, his boys Rob and George III along with a buddy and myself developed a triple carb intake for the Canadian 25 1/2" big block flatheads. We used the 50's triple that Eddy Edmunds produced and dramatically improved the flow of the intake as well as made a number of changes to the design to dramatically improve the performance (torque and
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Welcome - a new blog is born

Welcome to the “Keeping Up with the AoK boys” blog, or in other words, Ramblings about Vintage Mopar Performance stuff with the Kingsbury's and Asche's This Blog really originated after several forum members suggested I should start a blog. After discussions with the p15d24 site owner, my “brothers”, the guy who calls me his “3rd son” rofl, George Asche, and a few forum members, I decided to take the plunge. I will start off apologizing in advance to all of the above ! Lol, in other words, be
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