"Tim" wrote in message
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On Apr 22, 5:24 pm, Wayne.B wrote:
On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 07:35:04 -0700 (PDT), Frogwatch

wrote:
I'd almost like to have an Atomic 4 engine, small, reliable and enough
power. If one is careful a gasoline engine can be very safe.

Smooth, quiet, powerful, reliable and easy to work on. What's not to
like? We used to use ours a lot when cruising, typically motor
sailing in light air with the engine a little above idle. It would
run for a day like that on very little fuel and so quiet you hardly
knew it was on.

I did som reading on the atomic-4 and it was a success from about 1947
to about 1984 when production ceased. I know they didn't change very
much but what was it's demise? Couldn't meet EPA? or just an out dated
flathead? Or a combination of a bunch of things?


Maybe it was the name.

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