Jim Macklin wrote
Long time ago, the Champion Lancer had a single-engine best
rate of climb of 100 feet per minute down. Fixed gear,
fixed pitch props, a Citabria with a nose-wheel. But it did
have a Vmc and you could get a multiengine rating cheap.

Not quite, the Lancer was produced between '61-'63, the Citabria
did not appear until 1964. More like a Tri-Champ with two engines.

Bob Moore