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64 (already). A few posts ago I slammed British engineering. Though I was thinking of Lucas Electrics (anyone my age knows the terror these two words strike in the hearts of car lovers) I got a couple responses defending the British with inventions like radar and jet engines. I couldn't agree more. There's the Merlin engine. And Lotus cars.
As a tweener in the early 1960s I became a huge Lotus fan and I even made a drawing of a dream car that recently surfaced in our basement. The proportions are a tad goofy and Lotus NA headdquarters are inexplicably moved to Denver, but the car's basic layout is eerily predictive of the FR-S (front-mounted 4-cylinder boxer engine, rear drive). The modest power and acceleration are fairly typical of standard sports cars back then. And my dream car even came standard with windshield wipers, undoubtedly made by Lucas.
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