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Mitchell Holman wrote:

Whoa,THAT looks really strange! The ill-begotten offspring of a
Supermarine/Messerschmidt liason.

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89 PC800
77 R100RS

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Frank wrote:

> Mitchell Holman > wrote in
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> Is it my imaginagtion, or does this Spit have a BMW or JUMO engine? i
> didn't think the normal engine housing sloped so far down at the pointy
> end.

Looks like it, but not quite as obvious as the DB601 engine conversion
seen earlier.

--
PC Paul
89 PC800
77 R100RS

Trip pics at: http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/paul1cart/my_photos

"To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to
society" - Theodore Roosevelt

In article >,
Frank > wrote:

> Mitchell Holman > wrote in
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> Is it my imaginagtion, or does this Spit have a BMW or JUMO engine? i
> didn't think the normal engine housing sloped so far down at the pointy
> end.

The Germans installed DBs in a couple of Spits and improved performance.