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Date:         Wed, 1 Nov 1995 11:11:07 -0800 (PST)
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From:         David Schwarze <des@teleport.com>
Subject:      Re: 96mm Jugs for 1700 (f)

Bob Polys writes: > > Reminds me of some of my mispent youth reading my dad's old Mechanix > Illustrated magazines. I remember articles about people installing surplus > WWII airplane engines in various vehicles. I think these were immense > Allison engines, but I could be mistaken. Its been over twenty five years > since we threw these out. :(

Don't they use those engines in those tractor pullin type vehicles? Three or four of them even? One for each wheel? Wonder if you could fit four of them in a breadloaf?

-David

============================================================================ David Schwarze '73 VW Safare Custom Camper (Da Boat) San Diego (Actually La Mesa) '72 VW Westfalia Camper (Da Project) California, USA '73 Capri GT 2800 (Da Beast) e-mail: des@teleport.com '87 Mustang Lx 5.0 (14.17@99.34) http://www.teleport.com/~des '93 Weber WG-50 (Da Piano) ============================================================================


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