<VV> Franklin (sort of Vair)

[J R Read_HML]

No, not Ben.

Interesting how things sometimes happen together.  Last night I was at a 
local "Cruise In" where I saw a 1927 Franklin.  A solid car with a quiet 
running engine and could use a slight face lift - but QUITE SOLID.  Franklin 
is an air cooled US made car build from 1902 to 1934.

Today, I received in the mail a flyer from SAE International touting several 
interesting looking volumes on automotive history.  One of the books is "The 
Franklin Automobile Company" and sells for about $40.00 (less to members). 
Anyway, the description includes this line, "..... America's only truly 
successful gasoline-powered motor car incorporating an air-cooled engine."

ISBN-10: 0-7680-0221-4, 504 pp., Hardbound 1999
By Sinclair Powell

Since Franklins were luxury cars, perhaps Mr. Sinclair does not consider the 
Corvair to be a "motor car" OR does not consider it to have been 
"successful"?

Later, JR
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