Can we please stop hotlinking pics?

https://chicago.craigslist.org/nch/cto/d/winnetka-1976-jensen-gt-project/7486371535.html

In reply to RossD :

Oh, good lord. I'm about 45 minutes away from that.

Appleseed said:

In reply to RossD :

Oh, good lord. I'm about 45 minutes away from that.

Dudes. It's in the back of our own classic motorsports mag!

Edit, actually may 2022 grm.

I would buy it but I'm really just not in love with the shape. 

Sleeper AF!

I really hope they have upgraded the brakes on this thing.

preach (dudeist priest) said:

Fairbanks Morse opposed piston FTW.   Crankshafts connected by bevel gears and a vertical shaft so the upper leads the lower by 14 degrees if I remember correctly from my early 80’s schooling.   Supercharger provides the positive pressure to add combustion air / scavenge the exhaust when the scavenge and exhaust  ports are uncovered mid stroke.  Super compact design from the WW2 era that was still used for the auxiliary diesel on the boats I worked on in the 80’s. 

I've been waist deep into them.

11GTCS said:

preach (dudeist priest) said:

Fairbanks Morse opposed piston FTW.   Crankshafts connected by bevel gears and a vertical shaft so the upper leads the lower by 14 degrees if I remember correctly from my early 80’s schooling.   Supercharger provides the positive pressure to add combustion air / scavenge the exhaust when the scavenge and exhaust  ports are uncovered mid stroke.  Super compact design from the WW2 era that was still used for the auxiliary diesel on the boats I worked on in the 80’s. 

Also saw use in the railroad industry, through a partnership with both GE and Westinghouse for electrical gear. Unfortunately they had overheating issues in railroad use, and they were so unique that maintenance crews had no clue what to do with them.

In reply to NickD :

Also the inspiration for Lionels vaunted dual motor TrainMaster.

George Carlin and his brother Pat with George's new 1970 T/A... sold to him by his brother.

In reply to chandler :

Counting up in my head I owned at least six Imps and variants in my teens and early twenties before moving here in 94.  There's probably piles of pics in a dusty box at my moms house still.

We've been getting a fair bit of rain, and one of these was out and about.

In reply to Appleseed :

Gee, thanks.  Now I'll have the theme song running through my head all day.... 

Looks sooooo French.

Oops, forgot a picture.

A couple turned an old helicopter into a camper.