Re: [AMC-list] AMC-list Digest, Vol 46, Issue 3

[Marc Montoni <Freedom@xxxxxxxx>]

Frank Swygert wrote:

>1. Air Cooled V-4. This isn't really experimental. It was used in the 
>Mighty Mite Jeep built by AMC in the early 60s. The original MM design 
>used a VW engine, but the US military wasn't interested in using a 
>vehicle with a foreign engine. The company that designed the MM 
>approached AMC about buying the air cooled V-4 that AMC was 
>experimenting with. How they found out about it I haven't a clue! AMC 
>bought the rights to the design and built several hundred for the 
>Marines instead of selling the engine.


This was written up in the Wikipedia article about AMC engines:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMC_engines#Air-Cooled_108

When I first added the section about this engine to the Wikipedia article, I included some references about it which have subsequently been deleted.

The 108 V-4 was actually built by Lycoming, as I recall.




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