Made it back from the old country. Had a good time with beer, wine and
crazy drivers.

I visited the Two-Wheel museum in Neckarsulm, which is the place of the
first Wankel engine driven cars.
There is the SPIDER with the single rotor and the RO 80 with the two
rotor, and their engine cut-away's. What hit me on those P-Port engines
is the two-port solution. A small port on late timing with a carburetor
at app.. 8" from the port, and a larger main port with the carb at the
same distance but the butterfly right at the rotor housing.
That was in around 1958.

The car in the picture is not quite an RX8 but a SMART.


Richard Sohn
N-2071U

Those "Smart"cars are a riot. My wife and I call them telephone booth cars :)
I missed that museum last time I was there.
Where in Neckarsulm is that museum Richard? We are going over in June
for a few weeks and I will look it up then.

BTW Francois hope to visit you too in Geneva. Robin has some stuff
to do in Northern Italy and we might go to the Paris airshow as well.

Paul Lamar

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