<VV> Re: Prototype Engine

[Louis C. Armer, Jr.]

"The Golden Rule" is what the country is all about. Enron,
World Com, Mutual Fund manipulation and Corvair Prototype
engines are all about who can gouge and gouge and get away
with it.............the masses and purists be damned !!! The unabashed
result of excessive greed is displayed in it's most extreme example
on the internet and is called e-Bay.

Chuck Armer
Former flag waver
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big snip

>Smitty says:  Won't be able to look it up til Sun at the earliest.  Maybe
>someone else will tell you what Communique it was in.  Just from memory
>though, two of the problems were that it :rang like a bell" at certain
>engine speeds, and that they had awful thermal stress and distortion
>problems with the cyls and the pushrod cavitys in the same castings.
>         I personally don't think the museum owns an example of that
>engine, and running or not, it would be a crime for it to end up in the
>hands of an individual.  Last I heard they had contacted some AH who had
>one and he was trying to hold the CPF up for excessive bucks to part with
>it.
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