Off-Off..........LOL......Glad you told that again Steve, I'd forgotten it.

The Slant Six........Until it had to succumb to emission control devices, it was without doubt the workhorse engine of all time. Like rangerroger, Denny and I bought a '68 off of a farmer who had become ill. We took care of his other vehicles and provided a lot of servicce to him so he gave it to us for $125. It had been sitting for 5 years and the engine was locked up. We had another slant six in storage, rebuilt and ready to go, but we thought, what the hell, let's try this one.

We pulled the plugs and the oil pan, shot it full of penetrating oil in both the cylinders and crank, and hooked it on the back of the wrecker. I drove down the road and Denny, in the pickup, dumped the clutch a few times and the engine broke loose. We figured that the rings were probably gone and the clutch too, but it was worth a try. We screwed the plugs back in, put the oil pan on and filled it with oil.............and it started! We let it run for awhile and then tried the clutch and tranny and..........they worked too! Having another engine available, we figured we'd still go ahead and drive it til the one that was in it let go....I mean the rings and cylinder walls had to be a mess.

Denny died 4 years ago and he still had the Dodge......same engine, same clutch. The body and bed were about gone, no floor pans left to amount to anything, but the old girl still ran and used very little oil. I was sorely tempted to take her, but I decided that even looking at it was a bit too painful, so Denny's son Jeff took it as and sold it about a year later. I wonder if she's still out there? It'd be a shame to think that someone sent her off to the junkyard without a few words being said over her.

Spaw