<VV> '63 911 - '63 Vair

[BBRT]

Well, the air-cooled flat six may have been designed in the early 1900's but 
the first mass-produced flat fours were VW with Tatra help. Tatra produced 
many variants of air-cooled engines which were used most often in 
lorries/trucks and military vehicles (incl. German).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Ledwinka

Chuck S
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> Maybe GM or Porsche--either one or both--forgot that Hans Ludwinka had
> designed--if not a six--an air-cooled V8 for Tatra.  Certainly as many 
> Tatras
> were still to be found in the remains of the German-Austrian Empire at 
> the
> end of WWII as they were designed in what is now Slovakia.
>
> Scotty from Hollyweird
>
> P.S. Ludwinka's pupil and successor at Tatra was Julius Mackerle, who 
> wrote
> the book on air-cooled automotive engines.
>
>
> ,
>
>
> In a message dated 8/19/2011 12:25:24 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
> chsadek at comcast.net writes:
>
> Well,  maybe Porsche had a problem with their center cylinders on their
> development 6 cylinder engines, but the 911 came out in '63. First US
> models
> were delivered in '65, the last year of their 356. They sure didn't  adopt
> the right-angle Corvair belt driven cooling fan...  :>)
>
> Chuck S
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Marc  Sheridan" <sheridanma1966 at gmail.com>
>
>
>> Bob Benzinger told  us in Flagstaff that Porsche could not figure out how
>> to
>> cool  the center cylinders until Chevrolet did it with the Corvair.
>>
>>  Marc  Sheridan
>>
>
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