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Australian Motor Sports magazine, Sept. 1953; State Library of Victoria

 

16:1compression ratio????? Wow

 

From PreWarCar.com
https://www.prewarcar.com/an-airpla...inal-1921-leyat-helica-2h-conduite-interieure

 

learned a new word - euphonious. lol!

 

Who would have thought we could expand our vocabulary here? Won't score you many points playing SCRABBLE though.

 

I think those are the stupidest design for a car ever made. Danger aside, horribly inefficient and terribly noisy.

 

My thought is that it might be fun to try when no one was around. Like you state ...very inefficient.

 

I'd be in on the project. Looks dangerous enough to be fun.

 

Australian Motor Sports, March 1953; State Library of Victoria

 

Not sure if this has been posted before. Did a search and nothing came up.

 

Excellent. Thank you.

 

Ziggy, we've probably forgotten even if it was posted in the ancient past.

 

Hinstin It has an air cooled inline twin 2 stroke engine

 

The Monoposto was too cool. What a fun car.

 

We had a great Morgan event in Asheville last week. Here is the drive up the Mt. Pisgah switchbacks.