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Date:         Thu, 1 Feb 1996 20:41:03 +0000
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From:         tjparker@pacificnet.net (Tim Parker)
Subject:      Re:[F] Extra large engines (fwd)

At 1:10 PM 2/1/96, Crazed Idiot wrote:

>Also I > saw one of those cars with the stationary crank and rotating engine at > the Smithsonian last time I was there. It was a really early car, tho, > I think it was a three-cylinder. The forebear of the Geo Metro? > > Sean

While on the subject of off-subject, but interesting engines... by far my favorite car in Harrah's was another one-off car, the 1905 Compound. It had a three-cylinder inline engine in which the first and third cylinders had a 3.5" bore, but the center cylinder had a 7.5" bore. The center cylinder ran off the incompletely combusted exhaust from the other two cylinders. Early environmentalists!!

-Tim Parker 93 EV GL 60 Singlecab 29 Model A Ford


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