The Series VI prototype has a 7 blade fan. :-)
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From: "Marc James Small" <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
To: <Jay_Laifman@countrywide.com>
Cc: <ian@sunbeamalpine.org>; <TLKSRHOME@aol.com>; <alpines@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 12:36 PM
Subject: Re: Stock 6 bladed fan??
> At 08:39 AM 4/25/2001 -0700, Jay_Laifman@countrywide.com wrote:
> >That said, I seem to recall years and years ago on this list, geeze
perhaps
> >close to 10 years ago, wow it's been a long time, someone commented (and
it
> >was probably Dick) that when production was stopped, it was a surprise
and
> >that it wasn't like there was a foreseeable end that they were simply
> >throwing cars together with whatever was left. That however, doesn't
mean
> >that from time to time they didn't run out of something and made due.
>
> This is the explanation generally given for the presence of the hand-crank
> bolt on the Series V, after it had been superseded on the IV by a plain
> bolt to hold the fan-belt pulley in stock -- someone opened a warehouse
> door, and there was a passel of these hand-crank bolts, so they used them
> up on the V's. The blue six-bladed fan was, I recall, originally part of
> the Series II racing kit.
>
> Marc
>
> msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315
> Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!
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