Spring 2017 Restorer Factory Grind out article

[Andy C.]

I was reading the Factory Grind out article. I have an example of this also. I am pleased to see Jim working on this.

[Vinnie P.]

Re: Spring 2017 Restorer Factorty Grind out article

Andy, wasn't the story about the Fuel Injection Survey for 1965's?

[Duke W.]

Re: Spring 2017 Restorer Factorty Grind out article

Yeah, that was it, but Jim didn't really say much about the grind-out/restamp photos. The number seems high for the only 595 '65 L-84s in his database, and I wonder why. Given that when L-78 was introduced in March at about $240 less than L-84, I would expect that FI sales must have dried up in the second half of the model year. Did St. Louis "convert" some Flint-built L-76s to L-84s in order to clear out the remaining FI inventory and then shove them down dealer's throats? Maybe Jim can chime in and explain.

BTW, Vinnie, great issue of the Restorer. I particularly liked the cover. The fifties was a great time for a kid into cars and airplanes to grow up. It seems like every month there was some new prototype military aircraft or X-plane. The Lockheed XRV-1 "Pogo Stick" had a cousin, the Convair XFY-1 "Pogo" that has delta wings and large ventral and dorsal vertical stabilizers/rudders. The former never made it from vertical to horizontal flight on it's own. The Pogo did, but both were underpowered and very difficult to control, so the idea was scrapped, but fortunately examples of each are preserved in static display status.

Nowadays it take 25 years to get a new military aircraft from initial concept to operational status, and I think the F-35 will be the last big manned program, replaced by lower cost and "expendable" RPVs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_XFY_Pogo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_XFV

I think Joe Randolph's article on C2 wiper transmissions was great. I bet those are overlooked in many restorations.

Duke