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Re: Engine Trivia

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Subject: Re: Engine Trivia
From: "Elton Clark" <lotus.tony@airmail.net>
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 21:17:07 -0500
Brian Evans specified:

> I thought the rules were that the engine had to have seen the first light
> of day, in any form related to basic design of the block, etc, in a racing
> car, then get used for mundane applications...Coventry Climax may have had
> a few engines that were purely racing designs, but not the "firepump"
models...

I read Spohn's note:

>>>"We got to wondering how many other backwards examples there were, of a
design
that was built specifically with racing in mind finding it's way into a
street car."<<<

It's surely still interesting  . . . the segue of the Coventry-Climax FW
engines from firepump to race engine to road engine.

Tony________FWA_FWE_FWB_@Sherman.Texas

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