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  • a car with a motorcycle engine?

    this is in a museum in maine


  • #2
    Well don't that just look like it's a hoot.............
    Cory Othen
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    • #3
      yeah it does----anyone have any history on a crest engine?

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      • #4
        That ghost image reflection is too cool/weird!

        Remember that in the very early days there was little or no distinction between car engines and motorcycle engines. They all basically used the c1896 de Dion-Bouton engine which orig. was an air-cooled single with an aluminum crankcase which looks to us today like a motorcycle engine.

        Seems like I've seen ads for the Crest engine very early, around 1901. That car looks very early vintage as well.

        Later on (c1913) there was a cycle-car fad that did use motorcycle engines in lightweight autos, but that was long after auto engines had evolved away from the basic de Dion-Bouton type and into big heavy cast iron multi cylinder jobs.
        Herbert Wagner
        AMCA 4634
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        The TRUE beginnings of the Harley-Davidson Motor Co.

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