Peter Mchugh wrote:
>
> 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)
Peter:
Cars and airplanes share an "equal spot in my heart", if you will, so
I'd never make fun of either. But you must admit, the thought of a
Merlin (as used in the P-51) installed in a Triumph Spitfire does call
for some form of humorous response. (Now a Supermarine spitfire...well,
that's another story).
Martin Libhart
1972 TR6 (driver)
1970 Spitfire (under the knife)
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