Ha; that brings us back around to talking about VW buses!!! EveryBus 2008 featured the appearance of a very strange splitwindow VW tow-truck with a sideways-H engine configuration. It had a 36hp engine mounted upside down above the original motor; linked by a belt drive. The engineering that went into making the engines work this way was quite remarkable; it was a tremendous feat of farmyard engineering. Here are a couple of pics of the unit in question I was able to find on the interwebs. http://rides.webshots.com/photo/2377628020092621899jEiVxd http://rides.webshots.com/photo/2676447790092621899lcottJ http://rides.webshots.com/photo/2167321210092621899YXqYqQ Everybus pictures and a warm rainy morning... Makes me want to up and leave the office and just go camping!!! </Greg>
Quoting Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM>: > Another interesting twin-engined thing was built for Emerson > Fittipaldi to race in Brazil back in the late '70s. It was a VW > beetle with two Beetle motors linked end-to-end, with the transaxle > turned back-to-front and the engines in a mid-engine configuration. > Essentially a flat-8 mid-engined Beetle, but more accurately a flat > 4+4. > Stephen > |
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