Vintage Photo Of The Day

[Rural53]

[fatfillup]

Rural, any info on your pic? 
First glance looks like a floating dry dock for a submarine but the buildings on top of what looks like a sub throws that off.

[DeadNutz]

Rural, any info on your pic? 
First glance looks like a floating dry dock for a submarine but the buildings on top of what looks like a sub throws that off.

Phil, that is how they build submarines down under.

[slip knot]

Looks like the bottom of a ship to me? but yeah whats the story??

[Rural53]

It is the WW1 German battlecruiser SMS Derfflinger. Launched in July 1913, she was scuttled along with the majority of the German High Seas Fleet on 21 June 1919 while interned at the Royal Navy's base at Scapa Flow. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scuttling_of_the_German_fleet_at_Scapa_Flow.
The ship was raised in 1939 and was anchored, still capsized, off the island of Risa until 1946, at which point the ship gained the dubious distinction of having spent more time afloat upside down than she had right way up. Derfflinger was then sent to Faslane Port and broken up for scrap by 1948. The story of Ernest Cox and his Cox & Danks Shipbreaking Co., that successfully raised 35 ships of the German Imperial Navy High Seas Fleet between 1924 and 1931 is incredible.

[fatfillup]

thanks for the info

[muddy]

Very cool story rural.

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[muddy]

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[muddy]

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[fatfillup]

can anybody ID the motor in the first pic with the huge valve cover?

[muddy]

can anybody ID the motor in the first pic with the huge valve cover?

Almost want to say a Buick but I'm not sure.

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[muddy]

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[slip knot]

they were running that AA/FA Pure Hell up to just a few years ago. quite a history of that old ride

https://www.hemmings.com/stories/2015/05/21/rich-guasco-calls-it-quits-with-the-pure-hell-fuel-altered-after-53-years

[J.A.F.E.]

can anybody ID the motor in the first pic with the huge valve cover?

The one closest to the car with the chrome valve covers is the 348/409 big block.

[muddy]

can anybody ID the motor in the first pic with the huge valve cover?

The one closest to the car with the chrome valve covers is the 348/409 big block.

Also know as the W head motors, Mark I, the grandfather of all GM big blocks.

Phil was asking about the hot rod.

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