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• State Limousines of Iran
  ...arages, being hidden underground, or even pushed into water. Following the revolution, these cars have been recovered, restored, and put into the National Car Mu
  1 KB (204 words) - 05:50, 24 August 2007
• Yank tank
  ...sed to describe the many [[classic car]]s present in Cuba. After the Cuban Revolution, the U.S. imposed an embargo on Cuba, making direct imports/exports between ...those that were previously registered for private use (acquired before the revolution) and a small number of used vehicles dropped out from local authorities.
  3 KB (443 words) - 07:01, 5 August 2009
• Dead centre
  ...; In the [[Wankel engine]] for example it occurs three times for every one revolution of the rotor.
  5 KB (735 words) - 19:04, 13 May 2010
• Gear ratio
  ...ions to turn the idler gear 1 revolution. It also means that for every one revolution of the pinion, the idler gear has made 1/1.62, or 0.62, revolutions. In pra ...ry revolution of the smallest gear, the largest gear turns 0.62/2, or 0.31 revolution, a total reduction of about 1:3.23.
  14 KB (2,379 words) - 19:01, 27 September 2009
• Iran Khodro
  The Paykan was due to be replaced in the late 1970s when the Islamic revolution occurred and the international investment necessary disappeared.
  2 KB (243 words) - 05:24, 13 April 2007
• Russo Baltique
  ...e built at the railway car factory RBVZ in Riga, Latvia and after the 1917 revolution a second factory was opened in Saint Petersburg, where they built armoured
  2 KB (264 words) - 05:10, 19 February 2007
• Pistonless rotary engine
  ...rbine and MYT engine deliver sixteen strokes for every rotor (and spindle) revolution. ...nkel engine fires three times for every revolution of the rotor, and every revolution of the rotor equates to three rotations of the eccentric shaft. The Wankel
  14 KB (2,166 words) - 17:06, 24 May 2010
• Cooper Car Company
  ==Rear-Engined Revolution== ...n the next race at Monaco, the racing world was stunned and a rear-engined revolution had begun. The next year, 1959, Brabham and the factory Cooper team became
  11 KB (1,654 words) - 07:16, 19 February 2007
• Kégresse track
  ...he system to a number of their [[Austin Armoured Car]]s. After the Russian Revolution Kégresse returned to his native France where the system was used on [[Citr
  2 KB (310 words) - 09:21, 23 March 2009
• Magneto (electrical)
  ...[[permanent magnet]] is rotated and the coil remains stationary). On each revolution, a [[cam]] opens the contact breaker one or more times, interrupting the [[
  2 KB (366 words) - 14:44, 2 May 2007
• Heel-and-toe
  ...rol and finesse. One simply flex the right toes for exact amount of engine revolution, ease off the clutch with the left foot at the same time as relieving the p
  6 KB (1,063 words) - 01:33, 9 October 2008
• Amos Northup
  ...t]]s and the 1932 [[Graham-Paige|Graham]] Bluestreak which was viewed as a revolution in automotive design with more enclosed fenders and a backward sloping gril
  2 KB (335 words) - 03:21, 1 November 2010
• Locomobile
  ...Sobel's alternate history book ''For Want of a Nail'', where the American Revolution failed, automobiles are known as ''locomobiles''. In the online [http://ww
  3 KB (477 words) - 08:09, 27 July 2007
• Classic car
  ...fore the Cuban revolution many rich US citizens lived there, but after the revolution the influx of cars stopped, at least in part due to the United States embar
  9 KB (1,416 words) - 20:53, 8 December 2010
• Zavod Imeni Likhocheva
  ...produce [[Fiat]] F-15 1.5 ton trucks under license. Because of the October Revolution and the subsequent Russian Civil War it took until 1 November 1924 to produ
  4 KB (427 words) - 06:07, 13 November 2008
• Odometer
  ...pin on the axle engaged a 400 tooth cogwheel thus turning it one complete revolution per mile. This engaged another gear with holes along the circumference, whe ...a chain, the "dog-teeth" mutually engaging with each other, so that by due revolution everything comes back to its original starting point (ti hsiang kou so, chh
  17 KB (2,744 words) - 09:08, 27 May 2008
• Lotus 63
  ...63 chassis was designed around a [[four wheel drive]] system. This was no revolution at the time, as four wheel drive had been used on the [[Ferguson P99]] F1 c
  4 KB (600 words) - 06:06, 22 July 2010
• Engine balance
  ...mentum of the [[piston]], [[connecting rod]] and [[crankshaft]] once every revolution. Nearly all single-cylinder crankshafts incorporate balancing weights to re ...this gives the best possible firing sequence, with one cylinder firing per revolution, equally spaced. But it also gives the worst possible mechanical balance, n
  14 KB (2,256 words) - 10:39, 30 October 2008
• Chris Bangle
  ...of the evolution of a wave of BMW design and the 2002 [[BMW E65|7-series]] revolution was initiated with the 2002 introduction of the [[BMW E65]]. Bangle acknow
  6 KB (874 words) - 15:47, 11 October 2009
• Straight-8 engine
  ...oad than an inline six. Also, due to the even number of power strokes per revolution, the straight-8 does not produce unpleasant odd-order harmonic vibration in
  12 KB (1,791 words) - 12:04, 24 May 2010

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