"In the years immediately following World War I, the American
automobile roster included more actual makes of cars available than ever before
– or since, for that matter.
Three of these makes, the Prado, the Wharton and the
Curtiss, had one thing in common. Their powerplant was a converted
eight-cylinder aircraft engine manufactured by the Curtiss Aeroplane &
Motor Corporation of Garden City, New York."
Many engine builders pursued customers in both the automotive and
aviation fields, Lycoming perhaps the best known among them. It wasn't
for lack of trying that Glenn Curtiss is omitted from that list today,
as we see in Keith Marvin's story in August 1983, recording
Curtiss's efforts to place the OX-5 V-8 in a production automobile
immediately after World War I.
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