I nearly purchased one of those once. It was bank repo, though in nice condition. My Dad talked me out of it because it was weird, nobody would want it if I needed to sell it, and he was suspicious of the whole rotary thing. They also were pretty plush inside.
Man you were supposed to buy Ethyl with the high octane unless you are talking early 70's when they first took the lead out.I grew up riding in a 1962 Pontiac Tempest station wagon with the 4-cylinder engine. I remember walking away from it dieseling away in parking lots on hot summer days.
My contribution: The Volkswagen 411 (I learned to drive in one)
Martin
What a lost opportunity! They're worth real bucks these days, if in decent condition. I learned to drive with a 1979 Honda Civic and those of us who drove Japanese cars from the 1970s know what cheap little buzz-boxes they were. The Cosmo shows a whole different side of early Japanese car manufacturing.
Pink crush velvet tufted interior = shaggin waggin >@^_*@<In keeping?:
Why am I reminded of Lady Penelope...?
@Frank Dernie who is a member here designed or had a hand in designing that car. I believe Ross Brawn was his assistant in some capacity.No idea and for some reason this Tyrrell sprang to mind.
Not that one, the Williams FW07D and Williams FW08B which had 4 driven wheels at the back. Small front wheels make no sense since the aero drag is dominated by the rear. Ross was indeed my lab technician at the time and he made the strain gauge load cell wheel mounts I designed to measure the wheel drag in the wind tunnel. Prior to trying the small rears we had accepted that open wheel car drag was a given, and since it was pretty difficult to measure the drag of a rotating wheel in the tunnel we hadn't (the whole R&D consisted of me Ross and a junior technician at the time, we could only do so much)
