Diamond Deuce, Eye Candy

Completed at the Candy Factory.... Amazing pictures of Jeff Norwell's hot rod Deuce pick up, photo shot at "Pie In The Sky Studio's"... Story to follow at a later date detailing the life and times of this hot rod from its humble beginnings in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada to a four page spread in Hot Rod Magazine with TV Tommy Ivo's four engine Buick Nailhead dragster....Fast forward thirty plus years, Jeff located this truck, not knowing of its rich hot rod heritage....

Candy's Dandy, But Hot Rod Parts are Better

Need hot rod parts in Canada, give us a call or email...

Remember this is your place for the famous, flat rate brokerage charge of $35 for anything less than $1,400 Canadian and $50 for anything over $1,400 Canadian, shipping directly to your door step from the warehouse in the United States....

By the way remember we punch 2 1/2" old time louvers, bend roll cages with the proper tubing benders and flare sheet metal with our round, flaring dyes, ie: model 'A' visors, etc.....

Gotta' love that Jeff Norwell, monster art work....

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GMC Jimmy 302 - Fisher Aluminum Head

As part of our garage crawl tour we stopped into a hidden treasure, owned and created by a master machinist 82 years young.

First we spoke about his Buick Nailhead heads he made out of plate steel, however; my attention quickly turned to a GMC 302 Jimmy with a "Fisher" aluminum head, injected on alcohol, McGurk valve cover reworked by the owner using a rubber 'O' ring instead of the regular cork gasket, and Wayne timing chain cover to accept the Hilborn pump to feed the alcohol to the injectors.

It is not exactly known how many "Fisher" heads were produced; , however; the number is believed to be less than twelve. This motor is an Ardun Flathead killer....

The Jimmy ran a short while ago in a vintage car, out performing any flathead around !

It would be very difficult to place a dollar valve on this motor as it may be the only one, or one of two, in existance....

The first picture, is a 1.8 ratio rocker assembly manufactured by the same machinist, for a stock iron head Jimmy 302....

No it cannot be purchased and sorry I will not provide the owners contact information, which was my promise to this very young man of 82 years.....

Buick Nailhead - After Market Heads !

Were there any after market high performance heads available for the 401 / 425 Bucik Nailhead ?

Well the answer would be; Buick made less than 30 cast iron 'D' port heads and less than 10 aluminum heads... However; on a garage tour the other day look at what we saw, STEEL heads made back in the mid 60's which were injected on alcohol.

These heads were welded up using an old arc welder with 1/2" plate for the top and bottom of the head with some pretty nice tin work to form the outer structure of the head. Amazing work when you also consider the heads used Chrysler hemi valves, no harden seats as mentioned the motor was injected on alcohol. Due to the large valves, compared to the stock 'nails' used for valves, the top of the piston ended up having a reverse hemi piston. The top of the piston was dished, in essence, the dish also created a cooling effect on the top of the piston where the alcohol would pool and cool the slug and allow for valve clearance.

The rockers consisted of Ford 'Y' block rockers, machined, to accept a roller bearing in place of the original Ford shaft and affixed to custom pedistals.

In the picture with the aluminum valve cover, you will first notice this head looks more like a big block Chev, however; you will clearly see the valley cover.

Next to the Offy breather on the valve cover you will notice a crank timing gear. This motor also ran a "gear drive", custom cut, by the builders father who was also a master machinist....

You will also notice a small 1/2" tube exitting the front of the head, this is the only cooling for the head, remember the motor ran on alcohol, therefore; cooling is not such an issue as with race gas, etc....

The oiling system consisted of a capillary tube along the bottom/out side edge, of the rocker platform assembly which feed each rocker. This capillary tube has been removed for repair.... Oh yes, the oil pump, not a stock factory oil pump, instead a pump manufactured using various aircraft parts ! Sorry I cannot remember the parts, as it did not remotely resemble a Nailhead oil pump.

The aluminum plate timing chain cover, consisting of three plates welded togehter then milled, completed the front of the motor to accept a Hilborn fuel pump.

This motor ran very strong back in the day and WON super modified races....

This motor is not for sale and I promised the owner I would not post his contact information, you will see this motor running again.... Truely an amazing piece of art, imagine if they had a MIG or TIG welder back in the day...

New at the "Candy Factory"

Just finished a front "V" spreader bar, rear spreader bar and tail light brackets holding '37 Ford tail lights on a custonmers '34 Ford 3 window coupe. Both items are ready for the ole' chrome shop.

On top of the Candy Factory, a weather vane, image of our nostalgic drag car designed by "TOD Enterprises" listed in our favourites. This company will place ANY image on your weather vane, sign, etc. Just send them your picture (straight on picture) and you will be very pleased with the results.....