Pedal-actuated radial engines, 'gasogene' fuel that produces onboard methane and hydrogen, and electromagnetic power.
"When we came up with it, the idea was, 'What about all these cars that have different systems of propelling them to what we're accustomed to,'" said Martin Button, who was on the selection committee for the class."Because for 90 years now, the main form of propulsion has been the internal-combustion engine. That, of course, is changing as the world is turning more and more to electric cars. Well, we had a lot of electric cars at the turn of the last century.
And soon there will be 100 more. But the Unorthodox Propulsion class was about more than just old EVs. There were radial engines—both hub-mounted and rear-mounted—a magneto engine that was like an early hybrid, and a Citroen that used"gasogene" to extract combustible methane and hydrogen by burning coal or even wood onboard.
Click on the video link above to see the cars, and perhaps spur your own thoughts about alternative propulsion, orthodox or not. Mark Vaughn grew up in a Ford family and spent many hours holding a trouble light over a straight-six miraculously fed by a single-barrel carburetor while his father cursed Ford, all its products and everyone who ever worked there.
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