On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Faure, Marin wrote:
:And speaking of old, weird cars, here's one I suspect no one will know (including
:me). In my neighborhood in Honolulu back in about 1971, there was a fellow
:who had two of these small sports car things. They looked, as I recall, sort of like
:streamlined versions of an Austin Healey Sprite, the rounder bugeye model, although
:these things didn't have google-eyed headlights. But they were powered by a
:relatively large motorcycle engine with (if memory serves) two horizontal cylinders.
:Or maybe it was a vertical or slanted twin. Anyway, it was a twin. The engine was
:mounted up front under the hood in the conventional position. It might have had
:chain drive to the rear wheels. These cars
:had manufacturer's names, but I can't recall for the life of me what they were.
A Berkeley sports, maybe? They're front wheel drive, but they've got a
two-cylinder engine in them. the B95 looks something like a sprite
http://www.cjnetworks.com/~msabat/berks/igerk95.GIF
http://www.cjnetworks.com/~msabat/berks/
There are a bunch of cars that used an engine called the Azanti, which is an
air cooled twin. It also was in boats, motorcylces tractors, ....
-- dscheidt@tumbolia.com Bipedalism is only a fad.
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