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Thread: for those looking for a REPU
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Klaus43
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posted April 22, 2003 11:25 PM |
 Edited By: klaus42 on 22 Apr 2003 23:27 |
I'll help you farm the grain
if you'll let me drink some of our, er, fuel! Seriously, though, I hear ya on the waste and mess of all the botched BS conversions, and the vanished companies. We don't need no fortune 500 to sell us another piece of crap! If it can be done right, eventually we oughta be able to do it...ourselves. After all, the rotary itself is so...simple it works! Reason propane didn't take off: Less power, poor mileage, and now...no great savings, if any. (nevermind it's an oil byproduct...)
Say, shouldn't we start a whole new thread on this topic? Maybe something like, "Future fuels"?
Oil from Blood? I sure hope not! Can just see where that'll take us...global overpopulation and all... Soylent Green, part 2... Yikes!
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nwaco
Redlining
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posted April 23, 2003 06:53 PM |
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I'm all for protecting the environment, but...
I don't want anything to do with all that bizarre alternative fuels/electrical hybrid BS. I want to enjoy my restoration rebuilds and don't want to spend my limited free time learning all the technological mumbo-jumbo that goes with each generation of vehicles. I've invested way too much time and interest in conventional rotaries so I'm going to leave these "hybrids/electricals to the next generation. And I will wish them all the best.
20wannab, about that electrical converted REPU, was that the one on Ebay? If so, I think I stumbled upon it. Some of you may have read the story of the REPU I found whilst getting a haircut, I inquired about it, and found the old man bought it off Ebay as a converted REPU sometime in early 2002. He wanted the engine to put in a LUV and I just wanted the body. It was/is red and is in fabulous condition. We cut a deal and I walked away with a mint 75 non-rusted body for a couple hundered greenbacks. It has a 4 speed, the rear gears and no engine. It is getting the Turbo II that I built a while ago.
So, say goodbye to at least one hybrid REPU....
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Klaus43
Rotorhead
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posted April 24, 2003 07:58 AM |
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Don't get me wrong...
...even the thought of an electric (former)REPU or other rotary car makes me wanna puke... but if we can get rotary performance with a clean burn, wouldn't that be just too cool? I can imagine the rotary (finally!) gaining more widespread acceptance/acclaim if this can indeed be achieved. I hear ya on keepin' it simple, though. That really is the key, regardless of what we're burning inside the housings!
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