Author Topic: SOLVED: WTH # 541 - Hisso Special by Benham and Aicher w Hispano-Suiza engine (Read 732 times)

sixtee5cuda · « **on:** May 21, 2017, 06:22:53 PM »

For one point, name the car, the engine, and the builders.

sixtee5cuda · « **Reply #1 on:** May 25, 2017, 08:17:41 PM »

Nobody wants to start guessing what kind of race car this is? Where it was built? What powers it?

sixtee5cuda · « **Reply #2 on:** May 29, 2017, 07:14:25 PM »

Because the Experts are asleep, time for the Professionals to give this car a try.

Up!

oko94 · « **Reply #3 on:** May 31, 2017, 07:21:30 AM »

US race car with US V8 engine ?

sixtee5cuda · « **Reply #4 on:** May 31, 2017, 07:45:14 AM »

The car was built and raced in the U.S. The engine is not from the U.S., and it is not a V8.

oko94 · « **Reply #5 on:** May 31, 2017, 07:54:54 AM »

European 4-cylinder engine ?

el_monty · « **Reply #6 on:** May 31, 2017, 07:57:47 AM »

British V6?

sixtee5cuda · « **Reply #7 on:** May 31, 2017, 08:08:35 AM »

It is a European 4 cylinder, not from Great Britain

oko94 · « **Reply #8 on:** May 31, 2017, 08:44:27 AM »

Italian engine ?

sixtee5cuda · « **Reply #9 on:** May 31, 2017, 08:48:40 AM »

The engine is not Italian

oko94 · « **Reply #10 on:** May 31, 2017, 08:57:48 AM »

German engine ?

sixtee5cuda · « **Reply #11 on:** May 31, 2017, 10:41:50 AM »

Not a German engine

oko94 · « **Reply #12 on:** May 31, 2017, 10:42:57 AM »

French engine ?

sixtee5cuda · « **Reply #13 on:** May 31, 2017, 11:03:50 AM »

Engine was not built by a French company. (To clarify engine answers: I know which company built the engine. Sources do not indicate the country where this individual engine was built.)

oko94 · « **Reply #14 on:** May 31, 2017, 11:05:13 AM »

European Ford engine ?

sixtee5cuda · « **Reply #15 on:** May 31, 2017, 11:31:50 AM »

Not a Ford engine.

oko94 · « **Reply #16 on:** May 31, 2017, 11:53:37 AM »

Is it an engine from a manufacturer that is still active today ?

sixtee5cuda · « **Reply #17 on:** May 31, 2017, 12:36:44 PM »

The engine maker is no longer active.

nicanary · « **Reply #18 on:** May 31, 2017, 01:52:06 PM »

Well I've found the answer, but only by pure luck. I wondered if the motor was a Puch of some sort (don't ask me why) and I asked Images for some suggestions, but it came up as "push" engines. I persevered and found an interesting site of old drag racers when in fact I had assumed the puzzle car was a sprint/midget racer.

It's the Hisso Special built by Ron Benham and Paul Aicher fitted with a 4-cylinder Hispano-Suiza aero engine. Would this motor date from WW1?

sixtee5cuda · « **Reply #19 on:** May 31, 2017, 04:45:18 PM »

And the point goes to nicanary for the correct answer.

The engine is from 1914 or 1915, being 1/2 of the V8 out of a Spad VII aircraft.

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Author Topic: SOLVED: WTH # 541 - Hisso Special by Benham and Aicher w Hispano-Suiza engine (Read 732 times)