OT: American race cars (formerly - OT: new car advice)

[Mike Garfias]

The rotarys still require more mainteance than other stuff.

Btw, my piston engined car does 70mph in 2nd.

vodhner at cox.net spoke forth with the blessed manuscript:
> When the first recumbent bicycles first appeared,
> they turned out to be too fast for the
> Tour de France, so you won't see them there.
> That was about 100 years ago ...
> A recumbent with a shell was the first bike
> to take the prize for hitting 65 mph.
> 
> In the demolition derbies, they banned some cars
> like the '73 Continental because they were
> indestructable so it wasn't fair.  :-)
> 
> I drove a rotary Mazda once back in the 70s.
> Cool.  I once left a traffic light, shifted
> into 2nd at about 2 mph, and took it up to
> 55 on the freeway in 2nd before the tach
> approached the red line.  Sweet, smooth
> running engines.
> 
> I heard once that they wear out and start
> eating oil very quickly.  But that was a
> long time ago, they may have improved
> that.
> 
> Vic
> 
> 
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