<VV>Front vs Rear...........Tucker
Louis C. Armer,Jr.
carmerjr at mindspring.com
Wed May 10 14:23:02 EDT 2006
Hey Lonzo, Tucker cars were water cooled helicopter engines
manufactured by Lycoming or
Continental but I don't remember which company. The Cofer family of
Tucker, Georgia take
their Tucker for a drive occasionally and it is an awesome sounding powerplant.
Chuckster
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At 11:23 AM 5/10/2006, you wrote:
>
>In a message dated 5/10/2006 10:49:52 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
>pp2 at 6007.us writes:
>
>BTW wouldn't the first American car with an air cooled flat six be the
>Tucker even though the Franklin was converted to water cooling for
>production ?
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>Padgett,
>I brought up E.L. Cord because his engine was BEHIND the transmission and
>differential, air-cooled flat sixes had nothing to do with that,
>it's that the
>front of the engine is towards the front of the car.... Remember,
>his L-29 and
> 810 & 812s were all front wheel drive.... but you already knew that.
>:-)
>Later,
>Lonzo
>
>Lon Anderson in White Mills, KY
>CORSA, Corvanatics, Derby City Corvair, Central Ky Corvair
>Quart Low Quarterly Editor
>1961 Greenbrier 110/pg
>1963 Greenbrier 110/4spd
>1964 700 sedan 95/pg
>1969 Monza 110/pg
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