<VV> Air cooled Chevy engine in museum no Corvair as such

[Frank DuVal]

That's the one.

Should be the same engine as used in the Chevrolet car, just an 
industrial (farm) application. Just like all the Buck straight 8's in 
use on irrigation pumnps after WWII.

Delco systems were 32 volt and very popular as farm electrification 
systems in rual America until REA (Rural Electrification Act  and later 
the Rural Electrification Administration of course) funded running the 
grid to rural area. Windmills were also used with Delco systems.

Frank DuVal

Clark Hartzel wrote:

>Unless there was an engine I don't know about, the CPF has a copper cooled
>engine attached to a generator, called a Delco Light.  It is sitting in Pete
>Cimbala's garage as Jack Miller didn't want it in the museum.  The museum's
>name is Ypsilanti Auto Heritage Museum and if it wasn't built in Ypsi, it
>wasn't wanted.  The generator is actually on loan and we have talked about
>giving it back to the donator.  I think Pete would appreciate the garage
>space for his own use.
>Chevy guru Pinky Randall had a copper cooled engine and several Corvairs but
>I think he donated the engine and, for sure, his 1969 Corvair convertible to
>the GM Heritage Museum.  We will be visiting the GM museum at the 2007 CORSA
>convention.  While your car is on display at the concours/people's choice
>show at the GM Tech Center, we will have a bus taking people to the museum
>and the host hotel.  It will make a loop every hour or so to get you back to
>your car.
>I highly suggest everyone enters the people's choice show next year so you
>will have more time to visit the GM museum and it will be less work for the
>judges!!! :-) 8^)
>Clark Hartzel, CPF Curator
>
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