Yep, it was wound out at 73 mph. That's about what an air cooled vw would do too but if you did it with the simca you might blow it up....like I did on a little downhill section.

You just told me more than I ever knew about the bigger simca. I had seen the flathead v8 mentioned in the repair manuals though. I suspect it was an English flathead.

I seem to remember recently seeing some of them left over on ebay from some sort of a military application.

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