Didn't catch on?
First there was an inline, then a V, then a W and now a VW!!!View attachment 260317
Didn't catch on?
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How many of those you got tucked away on the other shelf that only Allison gets to know about ole wise wizard?View attachment 260317
Didn't catch on?
Damn the torpedo, full speed ahead!Double V it's called.
What/who was?
Amazing and interesting to say the least.Damn the torpedo, full speed ahead!View attachment 260336
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Amazing and interesting
No spark plugs.Just a set of points instead.Wow Wow wow.So cool.Gotta quit rereading.lolAmazing and interesting to say the least.
...and decided to spend billions on an electric M/C that no one asked for instead.
The several casting methods that were in use back in the day, greensand, investment, etc... these evolved and slowly the abilities of fabrication became modern... So perhaps we might add to FFF also follows what become possible, often what become cheap enough to do...casting and machine tool, etc. Technology - thus I'd propose FFFT . I once spent a day with a pattern maker and a core maker and some very rare flat-head jugs...big valve 45...they were really focused on reverse-engineering the way they'd been cast... The goal was 55 inch 45... all those fellas are gone... They used to tell stories about the local whore-house, which ran yet very quietly, old johns and old whores, old friends. My new jugs never got cast.Most engines, and I would venture to opine the most popular with the public over the years were designed using the basic rule "Form Follows Function"
You have internal components surrounded by housings that were essentially lumps and bumps that housed what was inside. The cobbier and more eccentric in appearance were often the most popular because they gave the eye different things to notice from different angles of view.
The BSA power egg among others were attempts to stylize to a more modern market housing basically what what came before in an art deco or streamlined cover that would appeal to a current market. On the other hand that type of design turned off as many as it attracted.
The 80's saw the rise of the stylized V-Twin to mimic the Harley Davidson mystic, Honda was even so bold as to refer to some of their early V-Twin models as "Shadows". My wife's 750 ACE is a prime example of an engine designed strictly for visual appeal, having facades that need to be removed before you can remove covers that actually allow you to do maintenance.
Older Harleys, Triumph twins and various others are prime examples of the "FFF" design philosophy, are classic, immediately identifiable and loved for their funky contours.