At 1:10 PM 2/1/96, Crazed Idiot wrote:

>Also I
> saw one of those cars with the stationary crank and rotating engine at
> the Smithsonian last time I was there.  It was a really early car, tho,
> I think it was a three-cylinder.  The forebear of the Geo Metro?
>
> Sean

While on the subject of off-subject, but interesting engines... by far my
favorite car in Harrah's was another one-off car, the 1905 Compound.  It
had a three-cylinder inline engine in which the first and third cylinders
had a 3.5"
bore, but the center cylinder had a 7.5" bore.  The center cylinder ran off
the incompletely combusted exhaust from the other two cylinders.  Early
environmentalists!!

-Tim Parker
93 EV GL
60 Singlecab
29 Model A Ford