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Re: WOOF!

To: mgs@Autox.Team.Net
Subject: Re: WOOF!
From: Simon Bosworth <simon@hpi50.dsddhc.com>
Date: Thu, 01 May 1997 12:58:35 -0500
Mark Moburg wrote:
> 
> At 03:35 PM 4/29/97 EDT, you wrote:
> 
>      <snip>
> 
> >Oh yea - LBC content:  Has anyone ever put a jet engine in an MG?
> >
> >Just procrastinating the big project due tomorrow,
> >Thomas James Pokrefke, III
> >1970 MGB
> >thomas_pokrefke@juno.com
> >http://ocean.st.usm.edu/~pokrefke
> >
> ===Reply===
> 
> Dunno about the jet-into-MG, but I once saw the Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud
> that some nut had put a Rolls-Royce Merlin in (World War II-vintage 27-liter
> V-12 airplane engine that powered Spitfires, Mustangs, etc.).  Apparently
> would run great for about 3 minutes until it overheated (couldn't move air
> through the radiator fast enough -- any surprise?).  Guy must have had a lot
> of spare time on his hands.
> 
> Mark Moburg
> markmoburg@mindspring.com

Wasn't there a Rover gas turbine powered car ?

Simon

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