Allen Nugent wrote:
>
> Martin,
>
> At 22:13 6/03/98 -0500, you wrote:
>
> >Well, John, that's great, but I think you're overstating the
> >"unreliability" of the 1500. ...
>
> For what it's worth, I once saw a broken Spitfire crankshaft on the floor of
> a shop. The owner had complained about a horrible noise from the engine.
> When the bearings were removed, the crank fell out in two pieces. The
> interesting thing about the story was that the owner drove the car about ten
> miles to the shop, with a snapped crank!
>
> Allen Nugent
> Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering
> University of New South Wales
> Sydney 2052 Australia
Yeah, on two cylinders (or one, maybe), the car hardly runs at all.
More proof of the pudding, eh?
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