Ron Bement, an amazingly talented craftsman from Denver, Colorado, built this 1/3 scale Ardun V8. The truly jaw-dropping part is not that it runs, though it runs very well. It’s the sound: totally badass. Just listen.
Mr. Bement’s other incredible creations include a 1/3 scale Offy Indy car engine and a similarly scaled model of a conventional flathead Ford V8. The engine in this video is a miniature Ardun-Ford V8, a faithful recreation of Zora Arkus-Duntov’s overhead-valve hemi conversion for the Ford L-head V8 that was first made famous in the late 1940s.
And as noted above, Bement’s little jewel is not just beautiful, it’s bad. The exhaust note alone is worth the price of admission. This little monster sounds like it’s on a trophy run at Great Bend in 1955. In our opinion, this is probably the best-sounding model engine we’ve ever heard. Check it out.
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W.O.W.!!! Brings back great memories from last week, having seen and heard the amazing Mameco-Ardun on the ramp at Pebble Beach.
I love the sound for its Bantam Rooster attitude. The engine seems to think it’s much bigger than it is. Wooba.
That engine is like my dog – tiny, angry and with a bark that makes you think it’s much bigger than it is…
Let’s hope it is of better quality than the garbage Ford turn out. I’ve yet to see any good product from those racist creeps
NEGATIVE NANCY
Do you sell those Ardun’s baby engines?
Sounds Like The Bob Estes Arden Indy Car See At Face Book Dale Estes Malibu !!