Australian slant-4's!!

["Eric Sundman" <ericbananaman@domain.elided>]

I was reading an issue a couple of days back that mentionned some fo the 
right-hand drive Scouts with 345's that were sent to Australia, and 
because I lived some time in Australia, thought I'd comment on the ones 
that I saw.

They were fairly abundant, (well, I saw three) but none of them that I 
saw had the original 345.  As petrol down under is about 113 cents 
American to the Litre (which I think is 22.7 cents a US gallon), many of 
the Aussies found a way of making the 345 cheaper to run:

They would "cut the 345 in half"!!!  Yeah, they would just take out 
every second piston, take all the valves, etc., off one side, and put a 
plate in its' place.  And, they still ran pretty good on four cylinders.

So, now we can tell those Fords and Chevy @#$#@ people that a corn 
binder will still perform with half of its' engine!!!

Thanks, Eric.

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