You all are making fun of aircraft engines in cars....and yet,
Chrysler designed the Airflow just to accomodate an aircraft radial
engine...the car was to be rear engined, air cooled...but they had
problems keeping the front wheels on the ground...which led to other
difficulties....which lead to the cars getting more traditional power
plants.
Now you might ask how this has anything to do with lbc's????
Had it not been for Chrysler Airflows, and a coupe in particular, I
would not have had a chance to buy my TR 1800 Roadster, which was
displaced from its home by 4 or 5 of the aforementioned Airflows....
So lets not be too quick to laugh at airplane power in cars!
PMcQ
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Subject: Re: Daytona Exhaust -
Author: mlibhart@feist.com at Internet
Date: 8/13/97 11:51 AM
Barry Schwartz wrote:
[SNIP]
> (No this one won't have a different, non
> Spitfire engine, although I was looking at a surplus Rolls Royce Merlin
> engine. . . If I just notch the firewall slightly
> . . . . .)
>
Barry:
Be sure to contact me when you get to that stage - I've got a NOS
variable pitch prop right off of Strega!
Hmmm - I feel a new autocross class coming! Could also give new meaning
to the term "SOLO".
Martin Libhart
1972 TR6 (driver)
1970 Spitfire (under the knife)
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