<VV> Rampside sold on eBay for $22,000 ?

[BobHelt at aol.com]

You are mixing apples and oranges. The advertised horsepower is the gross  
output of the engine. The net HP is the actual output. The 80 HP engine 
produces  80 hp gross which is an actual 65 hp net.
Regards,
Bob Helt
 
 
In a message dated 1/20/2012 10:20:11 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
brent.fullard at rogers.com writes:

The 65  hp question was raised on the Ebay listing, and  reads:

Q: 
Sir,
you have the hp wrong on this corvair truck,  it should be either a 85 
hp or 102 not 65, there was never a 65hp engine  made for the corvair it 
started in 1960 as a 80 hp then went up from  there.
Ken
Jan-02-12


A: 

Thank you very much for 
this information.  We had  noticed this also on the different websites!  
However we chose to  state exactly what is listed on the trim tag; 
"CERTIFIED NET H.P. OF  ENGINE 65 AT 3600 R.P.M. (145 CU. IN.)"

--- On Fri, 1/20/12, rod murray  <rmurray8996 at gmail.com> wrote:

From: rod murray  <rmurray8996 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: <VV> Rampside sold on eBay  for $22,000 ?
To: "Charles Lee" <chaz at properproper.com>
Cc:  virtualvairs at corvair.org, Mikeamauro at aol.com
Date: Friday, January 20,  2012, 10:49 AM

65hp?