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In Reply to: RE: First cassettes posted by Jcard on August 10, 2009 at 15:38:29
I remember those Ford Fairlanes. Almost as bad as the Maserati Citroen SM I owned a long time ago. Maserati and Citroen had merged for a time in the 70's and made one of the most complex cars ever made. Everything was hydraulic. The engine had a 7 cylinder hydraulic pump attached to the crank shaft that could produce almost 2000 psi through 1/8" tubing. The suspension was hydraulic, the steering was hydraulic and brakes hydraulic. Not just assisted by hydraulics but fly by wire like some aircraft. The brake pedal went to a proportioning valve and not a master etc. When you turned the car off it slowing sank to the ground. Instead of springs and shocks they used hydraulic cylinders to hold the car up and the shocks were gas filled spheres on them. The steering wheel just went to valves also. There was a big red light on the dash and if it went on you had seconds to pull over before you lost brakes, steering and suspension. I had a low mileage one and it ran abotu $5k a year to keep running. Was fun to drive with the quad overhead cam Mas engine. And it came with an 8-track. The Maserati Merak had the same drive train and dash.
Here is a link to one of those Akai "invert-a-matics" like what I had.
Dave
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