Zitat:Original von cf17519
JR meinte was anderes: der MArkenname des Wagens ist ein in - gerade amerikanischen - Autokreisen durchaus bekannter, nur eben nicht für komplette Autos!

Zitat:early fifties Ford

Zitat:Power was to be provided either by a supercharged two-cycle gasoline engine or by steam. Steam was favored and McCulloch turned to an expert. What Shakespeare was to literature, Abner Doble was to steam vehicles. Early steamers could take more than half an hour to get up steam and had to make frequent stops for water. The Doble steam car of the Twenties could be ready to go in less than a minute, travel 400 miles on a gallon of water, and exceed 90 mph. High purchase price and shaky financing killed the Doble car. Doble's design for the Paxton steam engine promised to be smooth, quiet, and powerful. However, full development of a postwar steam engine would have been prohibitively expensive. The steam unit was tested on a dynamometer and in a Ford chassis, but was never installed in the Phoenix. The four-cylinder Porsche air-cooled engine, left over from the sample 356, was eventually installed in the Phoenix's rear engine bay.