IDIDIT is about 25 miles from me. I think some of you have their parts in your cars.
This was the first car show I have been to that had a pancake breakfast, although I didn't arrive early enough to partake.
The only thing that could have been better was that they gave me a tee shirt 3 sizes too big.
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What a great assortment of cars. The Avanti was especially nice to see.
Yeah, I really like Avantis.
I photographed maybe 25% of the cars.
Great! And not a single car that was new, stock, and a reflection of the owners depth of wallet.
Avantis are great cars. I love the wing shaped switches in the console and above like a airplane. They have an umbrella brake like we do. The auto transmission is clunk clunk clunk, no hesitation. Bright interior colors.
I have to admit that Avanti IIs are better cars, but the original is so under-appreciated. Somehow using Chevy engine and tranny was like a capitulation.
The original was supercharged fast, stylish, modern. One of the original “plastic fantastics”! Super thick fiberglass. I wish I had one!
Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeet! Not an EV in sight!
Of course I liked the 48 Buick with the Straight Eight/single throat carb. Also the 50 Mercury "lead-sled" ! A Crosley with a V-8 ? OMG !............Bruce
Bruce, I specifically included the Buick for you.
Michael, thanks for sharing these cool pics from that show. That black '50 Merc with chopped top is one of my bucket-list cars. 
Musbjim.......I could see you in a 50 mercy ! Chopped top, 54 Pontiac floating grill bar, frenched head lights, Lincoln tail lights, no door handles, shaved nose and deck and all Black !......Very cool car ! Back then, I had a 34 Ford two-door sedan, channeled 14", 41 Chevy tail lights, Polished aluminum "Tornado" head light brackets supporting chrome bullet lights, SW gauges over the wind shield and a 283 Chevy with twin 4bbl carbs. adapted to Zephyr trans and so on.
Michael.....Thanks for posting the Buick. A Buick is on my bucket list...........Bruce
Here is a video of the event. My car is just past 45 minutes in. The whole video is an hour and 13 minutes. There is one truck I didn't look at when I was there that has a W-18 made from 3 I-6 engines. I wish I had inspected it.
Michael McKelvey: Thanx for your time to take & share photos with us. Truly cool and gorgeous rides. Dittos to other posters.
Loved the W-18 ! looked like a roller chain connected them.........Bruce
That chain looked kinda thin to me. Better be careful flooring it.
My guess is that the two outer engines are dummies. Perhaps driven by that chain and have no internal parts except the crankshaft. BIZARRE !............Bruce
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Just a frightening display.
I'll bet not a single one of those cars has a functioning lane departure mitigation system.
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... or collision avoidance system!
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Imagine the carnage when they all try to leave the show at once.
I don't know how any of us managed to survive the '60s or '70s.
I was only a few feet from the exit so I managed to get out safely.
But, on the way home, Google Maps sent me down about 6 miles of dirt roads. I should have turned around and got rerouted.
I watched the vid trying to imagine how someone got 3 L6s to work a single crankshaft—i.e a W18. But it's just three Blue Flame 6s in parallel. I mean...awesome in a moronic way. I love the car. But I thought it'd be an engineering marvel & it's really just a different take on TV Tommy Ivo's famous 1950s drag car.
The CALLIOPE ! 32 exhaust pipes coming out of 4 Buick nail head V-8's......4 wheel drive...one wheel for each Buick. Yup I remember him. The w-18 engines. Perhaps there wasn't even a crank shaft in the two outboard engines. But in the video they are turning............bruce
The video is 1:13 long. Help a brother out. What marker do I go to for the W18?
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The W-18 is at 38:15.
More on the engine(s) in a Hagerty article here.
Ed's right. Three separate engines with flywheels connected by motorcycle chains to a single transmission.
More power available today from a single LS.
But not more star power.
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That W-18 has your name written all over it, my brutha! Just needs your company logo on the doors.
@MusbJim posted:That W-18 has your name written all over it, my brutha! Just needs your company logo on the doors.
It really does. I love everything about it.
Of note: those engines made 223 lb-ft at 2400 RPM in the Corvette. The overbore & intakes on the truck units ought to pull them at least even with the later 250s, which were rated at 235. Times three that's...uh... pretty respectable, imho.
Also: big ups for the way he tilted the blocks but shimmed the intakes to make the carb tops level.
