what is this car?

Just to put "real" hotrodding in perspective, when I was at Navy electronics school in 68 a fellow classmate from Detroit showed me a photo of his early MG TD, with a 283 Chev. It would not fit inside the hood, so they left the hood sides off and just ran it "32 Ford" style, with the top pieces installed

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I've got a couple little foreign cars with V8's swapped in.... but the ultimate huge motor in a little car is the 426 hemi swapped bugeye sprite. Completely insane.