This was my Dad's original 1938 Desoto - Plymouth Approved Service Dealer Sign.
My Grandfather had a later Desoto- Plymouth sign and a Chrysler - Fargo Trucks sign hanging on the outside of his shop, which he built after he retired from Chrysler Corporation. It was a 42" sign and of course Dad always admired it. When Grandfather passed away the signs were sold at auction and the pair sold for $18,500 and after their sale Dad almost immediately started looking for one. Years later
Update: To all the kind words we have received over the years and since this post thank you. The AoK intake setup is on its way to Gary Street for those of you wondering if its still for
sale or who got it. Oh and yes, it was spoken for pretty much within an hour of it being listed with a few backup homes looking to Adopt the Piece of History!
So you missed out on our last (and most likely final) run of AoK intakes and are kicking yourself.
Unlike ot
Sunday February 6 2022 - Guess who turns 90 today ?
The answer to that question is - George Asche Jr, born February 6th 1932!
Here is an great article that was published in the local paper earlier this week, celebration "The Nifty at 90 - George"
If you want to call George and wish him a Happy Birthday, his number is 814-354-2621 although around 4pm on his birthday he likely wont
be answering the phone until 7pm. I cant confirm
Hello folks -
Back in 2017 I started a thread on floor shift concepts. It kicked off with Paul Flaming @pflaming who had made a shifter
for a straight 3 speed. He was planning to work on a version for an overdrive and got a prototype which was a 2 shifter concept.
The other one was Ron Allworth's who had made one for a buddy. He had gave consideration to try and make production versions but the demand wasnt there, a lot of people were really hoping for
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For now over 30 years we have been making AoK Triple carb intakes for the 25 1/2" Canadian
flathead engine, found in Chryslers from 1937, Desoto's from late 37/38, and Canadian built Dodge /Fargo trucks, Plymouth, Dodge cars
since 1936. Prior to that George Asche has been making triples from factory intakes from both the America
Well folks as 2021 starts to wind down we reflect on the 2nd year challenging year us a row under a global pandemic. With now over 5,412,000 dead world wide, over 837,000 dead in the USA, over 30,000 dead in Canada, 2% of everyone who gets it dies and just over 24 million active cases in the world right now, of which just over 11 million of those are in the USA it’s a very challenging and stressful time.
While its easy to get caught up in the effects on our lives from unable t
1st we should start about heating intakes, and to make it easy this is primarily about Chrysler/Dodge/Fargo/Desoto/Plymouth intakes on Flathead (L-Head) engines from the 1930s-1950s and I would also refer you to read my article on multiple carbs.
Chrysler Corporation was building cars and trucks to run 12 months a year and under conditions that range wildly in terms of how hot, how cold the climate was as well as different levels above sea level. This is going
To be at a more
Folks - Im excited to be able to share Tony Smith big announcement
A key member of the Montana Dodge Boys involved in multiple land speed records.
MONTANA DODGE BOYS VINTAGE LANDSPEED RACING - Home (fastfourspecial.com)
As many know my family and friends have been known to dabble in high performance Chryslers (Desoto, Dodge, Plymouth, Fargo) engines and while the Kingsbury side of AoK racing is more 25 1/2" motor based, the Asche side of AoK ra
I thought for George's 89th Birthday I would let you folks in on a small sliver of his past. A story I am sure many of you have heard and one I have heard from both George and his Uncle Harry Hein's, the Legendary Stock car driver of Car #90. Interesting, my Dad, Eddy Kingsbury who was born less than a handful of days from George's birthday, had long before ever meeting George, heard about an old Desoto Roadster with a Chrysler 6 beating a Hemi Powered Drag Car at the Flying Mile. Yes,
Hi folks -
The good news folks, is that the AoK Boys will be making another run of our AoK Intakes;
The bad news is this will likely the last run we do...
More at the end of this note, but as requested by many, a look back at how the intakes came to be...
It was over 20 years ago that George Asche Jr and Eddy Kingsbury (both Feb 1932 babies) we hanging out at Chrysler Carlisle, or The All Chrysler Nationals. Along with George's son Rob
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I forgot about this so better get started. One of the most stated responses to the truck is "Oh, you kept the flathead six."". Two days ago an employ at a tire shop commented " ,those cast iron engines were real s"engines"! And when it starts on the first cycle, they are impressed.
Howdy folks -
Coming from another blog topic, which strayed down a back road, came the idea of transmissions for Mopar Cars and Trucks that were post 1940 that came with Column shift and the normally column shift transmission was modified or the linkage was to turn it into a 3 speed floor shift transmission.
So this isn't about taking a vehicle that had column shift and putting a transmission for the 1930s or a modern floor shift transmission to make the vehicle floor shift. This is
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Howdy Folks - I thought I would do an update on a few topics. 1st the most important one being my buddy George Asche Jr. George who was hospitalized a few months ago continues to be regaining his health at a rate I think everyone including he himself find remarkable. I was down last week and helped him build another engine and a bunch of other thing. He continues to work through a long list of promised work, from engines and over drives, to intake, carbs and linkage.
The last AoK ra
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Okay, here we have it, the no nonsense "Mopar For Mopars" solutions blog.
This is a blog where any or all Mopar solutions can be entered, added, discussed and debated.
I am not limiting this to the Chrysler flathead 6 engine, so other Mopar Engines, Drive lines, Transmissions, Ignitiion, Electrical and Suspension, Steering and Brakes.
So please share what and how you have done something, utilizing Ma Mopar components and Parts.
If you are contemplating some modification howe
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