| Author | Message | ||
     Danger_dave |
Popsci article online. http://books.google.com/books?id=wCkDAAAAMBAJ&lpg= PP1&pg=PA116#v=twopage&q&f=false | ||
| Blake |
? All I see is a magazine story about a free scholarship. | ||
| Guell |
pulls up the article for me fine. | ||
| Mr_grumpy |
Worked for me too. Interesting thing was the fuel consumption, about the same as the stock petrol engine it would have had, but with rubbish performance & weighing half a ton more. | ||
| Hughlysses |
Cool article- I actually remember seeing that one back in the day. I think the main intent of the car was to use a Stirling engine; the "hybrid" part was almost incidental. Back then, tighter exhaust emissions regulations were looming on the horizon in the U.S. and the car manufacturers weren't sure they'd be able to meet them with internal combustion engines. External combustion via Stirling or Rankine (steam) engines was thought to offer a lot of promise for meeting the new regs. Bill Lear (father of the 8-track tape player and Lear Jets among other things) was a big proponent of steam autos and spent a LOT of money on research and prototypes. |
