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Richard Casady Richard Casady is offline
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Default H.L. Mencken Debunked

On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 06:28:53 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

Then GM tried with
the Vega,


There were five thousand with four valves per cylinder, DOHC. Only
Lotus and Jensen-Healy offered that. My brother had a Jensen.. Called
it the road oiler. Bought it in 72 and it rusted while he spent years
on a flattop. Then he got home, we stripped it down to the frame, more
or less, and chased the rust. He has probably put an thousand miles on
it since.

Casady