Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/04

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Subject: [Leica] Re: TO ALL AMERICAN LUGGERS
From: William Gower <w.gower@home.com>
Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2001 19:16:28 -0400

 Mark Rabiner wrote:
> My favorite TV ad in the late 60's was those German Audi engineers who had
> just  come up with a FIVE cylinder engine!

> Anyone remember that? How long did that last? Longer than the Mazda rotary I'm
sure!

As an aside - it was a German to brought the Rotary internal combustion
engine to the automobile - Felix Wankel. It was Mazda that "perfected" it.

William

an ex-gearhead (who, in highschool stuffed a 455 ci Buick V-8 in a 1973
Datsun 240Z - remember those !)