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Well said, Steve. I think a lot of people don't realize the beetle wasn't the bottom of the econo car line in Europe like it was in the US. Believe it or not, in Europe at the time there were...

From what I was reading in the newsletters, the Euro progression from 1200-to-1300-to-1500 seemed pretty quick... faster than the US moved to Super Vee.

Thanks Steve. I went through several years on the newsletters and it was a reoccurring discussion so I thought 4'' was a rule. the discussion went on for several years in the newsletters. It's...

Well how I'm really confused why these newsletters were discussing the issue. The newsletters go back to 1964/65

Here's a link to the newsletters and what appears to be a beginning of a discussion...

Interesting. I found a data base of old news letters of an organization called Formula Vee International and that seemed to be topic discussion about whether to keep the limit that I thought it was a...

When was the 4'' minimum ride height on FV dropped. I only realized recently it was an original reg. I always wondered why early FV's had such high ride height. And why that reg. Thanks in advance.

How could I have missed that...I always wondered why fv's did 3rd gear wheels. ;)

I'd like to ask again, didn't tilting the engine have negative effect on oil pick-op by the oil pump. It seems you'd have oil collecting at the front of the engine.

Didn't tilting have a negative effect on oil pump pick-up?

Speaking of trickery, I've seen references to tilting the engine. What is the advantage in doing this, and how many degrees tilt.

Thanks for the background. Was it required to run all the other sheet metal covering the cylinders?

When FV first started were Fans shrouds & Generators required in the beginning. Did people just run them because that's how the cars did? Did anyone try running without fans and gens and get shot...