[FC] The answer to my "betcha you didn't know this" challenge...

[Merv and or Loretta]

"Miss Purity"

"With only a few months to put the car together, Miss Purity's creators had to
be quick and inventive. The results of their ingenuity were impressive - the
chassis, made from parts of a 1970 Chevelle and a 1967 Corvair, would support
a custom designed fibreglass body."

This is quoted from an article in the Dec 2003 magazine, THE BEAVER. It goes
on to explain how a team of University of Toronto students whipped this little
item together and promptly won in its class in the 1970 Clean Air Race. It was
a hybrid gas/electric, fibreglass body, with maple-leaf tail-lights.
Surprisingly, it used a chev V8 engine converted to propane which provided
power to the generator which in turn recharged the batteries.

It also featured an electronic device invented especially for Miss Purity... a
"chopper". It provided a much better method of controlling the speed of the
electric motor.

Miss Purity could run in several modes: IC engine only, IC engine/generator,
battery only, IC engine/battery combined, IC engine/gen/battery combined.

KEWL, eh?
Merv Krull
Salmon Arm