This all seems kinda of DUMB, but hey it fills the email box. Let's see
how many cylinders I have.
'86 Pontiac STE, daily driver................6
'99 GMC, wife's transport, tow truck, etc....8
'58 chevy Cameo under restoration since '80..8
'86 Ford Ranger, shop truck..................4
401 cu. in. Buick in a flat bottom Ski Boat..8
Johnson 40 HP & 7 HP on Kayot Patio Boat......4 (2 each)
Race Car 2 engines...........................16
lawn mower....................................1
leaf blower...................................1
Troybilt rototiller ..........................1
" mini tiller...........................1
" Shredder..............................1
...that comes to 59 cylinders presently owned, actually the lawn mower,
leaf blower, and Troybilt tools belong to my wife, but she lets me use
them sometimes.
Tom, Redding CA - #216 D/GCC
Chuck Rothfuss wrote:
>
> 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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