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Originally Posted by Mark DiSilvestro
It would've been better had that sideways 2-stroke been mated to FWD, like the Trabby. A year later, Subaru got it right with the Star/FF-1, their first 'normal' FWD design, which set the pattern for nearly all 'Subies' since then.
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My brother had a 1969 and 1970 FF-1 Subaru wagons; it was strange at the time to see the spare tire mounted over the engine. Oddly, There was no radiator fan; the carburetor air intake flow went through the radiator to cool the motor...... It had the distictive sound of a sewing machine.
We tried to blow up the subie motor by flooring it; either valve float or the tiny carburetor wouldn't allow it to over rev.
Those dang FF/1 Subies; would not die. The paint disintegrated; they got all beat up; they looked so bad, even parking for a few minutes would get an "abandoned car" citation. Some of the windows were plywood....
My brother finally sold them as junk, and we kept seeing them running around Ventura for years after that. Plywood windows and all. 40mpg!
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