Swap to Street Challenge | 2015 Day 2

The big news first: We have an engine. It’s a 1953 Flathead Ford V-8 with transmission. The best part: It runs! The team saw it fire up on a stand. The only downside was location. On Wednesday we’d had a gentleman stop by the booth who told us he had a flathead V-8 for sale, with tranny. We’d had no solid engine leads at that point, so we were interested to say the least. Well, I meant to bring it, he told us, but it’s at my Virginia. We mulled it over all day on Wednesday, and with no good options onsite by the end of the day, we decided that Davin and Tara would drive out there to check it out. After a two-and-a-half-hour drive, they arrived at a garage that contained several flatheads, each more pristine and beautiful than the next. Ours was the first and least pristine, but it ran. They snapped it up and drove it back to Hershey. On Thursday morning, the team was in great spirits due to the engine score, but there was lots of work ahead.