Hoover's Mover ( Feb-1976 )

I built one of these in the mid 80's, first motor I ever had bored. Using a 8" bench grinder I ground a large champher around the top of the piston until the head could be installed without a head gasket,iirc had to grind the bottom of the pin boss for throw clearance, think the skirt cleared. Put the shortblock together and had no pv clearance, used 2 old valves with nubs welded on and spun them in a old head to make notches. Ran good, was soon popping head gaskets, put studs in and eventually had to start running av gas,no money for good fuel
Never heard of Hoover till I got on here,,didn't weigh anything, didn't balance it, beat some pretty good stuff with that piece of crap!
Cant even guess how many hours I had in that old girl, didn't have any money sooooo.
I will say determination is something that can't be bought, still proud of that one!