[SEL] R&V Knight

[Peter Lowe]

Hi Bruce

Yes it was a sleeve valve engine.
When a car with zero parts availability is for sale it reduces its 
marketability I guess, unless you are a real fanatic.

Regards
Peter Lowe
R&V Engine Registrar
http://www.oldengine.org/members/plowe/rv-engines/rvpage.htm
Australia


>
> "Hi all
> Caught up with LIST guys Curt Andree, Joe Prindle and Joe Kelley today at 
> Mount Pleasant R&V show.
> Around 130 R&V engines, Moline tractors, Moline and R&V Knight cars and 
> R&V memorabilia.
> Lots of new serial numbers, lots of new and old faces.
> The VanDervoort family arrived this afternoon and we drove around town in 
> a 1924 R&V Knight car.
>
> Off to the local steak house with Curt for supper.
>
> Regards
> Peter Lowe
> R&V Engine Registrar"
>
> Hi, Peter,
>
> Back in the late 30's, my grandfather bought a 1930 Willys-Knight Model 87 
> sedan with a sleeve-valve engine.
> The engine was very quiet, almost silent.  Is the R&V Knight also a 
> sleeve-valve?
>
> He kept that car until he could no longer justify a vehicle for which no 
> parts were available.
>
>
> Bruce Younger
>
> 05G HHC 313 RR Bn 3/67-4/68
>
> Madison, SD
>
> sluggo54 at hotmail.com
>
>
>
> "There is no hunting like the hunting of a man and those that have hunted
> armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else 
> thereafter."
>
> E. Hemingway
>
>
>
>
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