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Re: Cylinder count

To: land-speed@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Cylinder count
From: Chuck Rothfuss <crothfuss@coastalnet.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 18:50:39 -0500
Henry, List,

   If I only counted stuff that I race it'd be ZERO, since the USS Wankel
has no "cylinders" at all.  Include the tow vehicle and it's eight.  It's
the non racing stuff that adds up, but still I'm surprised that it's not a
bigger number.  If pieces of Wankel engines counted against me the number
would be a lot higher.  Then there's the three-headed Datsun in far corner
of the property.  No cylinders, but it came with three spare cylinder heads
in the trunk. 

Wife's car - 6 cylinders
Wife's broken car - 4 (not running)
"Betsy" daily driver - 4
Lawn mowers - 4
outboard motors - 2

   Looks like I need more toys.  Maybe a Maytag pedal start v-twin washing
machine engine for the '53 Hawk Tool Company motorcycle.  I always thought
this would make a neat pit bike if it wearn't so big.  Just another in a
long list of half completed projects around my house.

Chuck Rothfuss
Pole Cat Hollow, NC


At 09:18 AM 1/18/2001 -0800, you wrote:
>Okay, stuff that runs: 9 cylinders. That's two little Fords and a Honda 
>scooter. It'll go up one or two more after I get my genset. Anybody have 
>less than 9?
>
>Henry Deaton
>SF, CA
>
>
>At 11:39 AM 1/18/2001 -0500, John Beckett wrote:
>>OK, with a rules clarification, I have a revision to my previous e-mail. I'm
>>up to 113 cylinders.
>>
>>JB
>>
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "John Beckett" <landspeedracer@email.msn.com>
>>To: "Dan Warner" <dwarner@electrorent.com>; "Dick J" <lsr_man@yahoo.com>
>>Cc: <land-speed@autox.team.net>
>>Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 9:30 AM
>>Subject: Re: Car Sickness

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