I'm picturing something like that engine on a trailer behind your 240D
driving it's own wheels and with some sort of steering mechanism...  (:

Levi

On 10/3/06, LarryT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hmmm... I wonder if I could squeeze one of those 560-HP engines into my 78
240D to give it a little more uuumph when I have the AC on in the
summertime
and need to gain speed to make the on ramp merge a little easier?

;-)

Larry T (67 MGB, 74 911, 78 240D, 91 300D)
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Rich Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 9:14 AM
Subject: [MBZ] OT: Submerged Maritime Heritage Resource USS Macon


> This is a really interesting web site about the USS Macon, a large
> airship that crashed off the California coast in 1935.  It was powered
> by eight large 560-horsepower gasoline powered German built Maybach
> reversible engines.  (Was Maybach part of the MB or DB company back
> then?).  And it carried airplanes it could launch and recover.  Anyway,
> the wreckage was located and lots of photos taken, some very interesting
> history.  These big airships were so cool.
>
> http://montereybay.noaa.gov/research/macon/macon.html
>
> Enjoy!
>
> --R
>
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