Monday, September 16, 2019

when Jack Hanon wanted to drive the Rallye de l'Atlas of Morocco, he made a two engine 2CV.


possibly the only 3 lug rim race car, it was made over the course of about 3000 hours of fabrication, and when completed  - resulted in a 500% increase of power over the stock 26 Hp engine, with 130 horse power of the combined 2 engines.

When he'd finished building the car, he circled around the Eiffel Tower with a sign in the back window "Seeking sponsors to Participate in the Rallye de l'Atlas"

Eventually, one company noticed and became his sponsor. An underwear company.


Hagerty magazine, Sept/Oct 2019
https://www.hagerty.com/articles-videos/articles/2019/09/23/dual-engine-deux-chevaux

4 comments:

  1. Pretty good, considering the original military two-engine 2CV Saharas had but 12 bhp per engine. That's a grand total of 24 bhp.....

    https://www.motorious.com/articles/features/316288/this-citroen-2cv-that-challenged-land-rover

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    1. Yeah https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2016/07/the-only-twin-engine-all-wheel-drive.html I know.
      and unlike that link on the other site, the post I did, has a video where the narrator says the engines are 425cc, not 375.
      So, though the source on this post https://bringatrailer.com/2014/10/18/huit-chevaux-twin-engined-1968-citroen-2cv-rally-project/ may not agree with the reference you used,
      and Hagerty may have made the mistake of stating 26 Hp instead of 12 Hp combined to make 24...

      its the post I made that is a composite of those, and instead of spending more time learning more about the 2CV and the 2CV Sahara, I moved on to post more variety of stuff

      I'm only here to entertain, not make an encyclopedia of car knowledge.

      I'm just a car guy, not an expert or a 100% correct well researched accurate know it all. I'm just sharing stuff I find cool

      But I really dislike seeing a link to tell me I'm wrong from some other site - especially when it doesn't contain information that proves me wrong. Nor does it say how much hp the Saharas had

      so, either you're correcting me, and with a link which doesn't, or, you're giving me info, plus a link which tells me nothing.

      That's just giving me homework. If I wanted homework I would pay a college to burden me in exchange for a certificate or degree which would get me a better paying job


      But thanks for

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  2. Aww, come on, I wasn't correcting you, but merely making a point about how much stronger the 2CV you posted than Citroên's own two engine version did. Sharing stuff I find cool, like this sort of trivia.

    The site you dislike was the 5th of those I checked, and the first to mention horsepower at all, so I used that one before moving on to the nexts of your posts. (Just got home from 4-day mc trip, so there was a lot of JACG to catch up on).

    I'm glad you care for the 2CV's. I grew up with those contraptions, and were I ever to get a car, a Dyane would be it.

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    1. The Hp of this racing 2CV is far more than a normal Sahara.
      According to https://citroenvie.com/if-you-need-a-bit-more-power-in-that-2cv/ they are 130 Hp each, and 1300 cc apiece, which is confirmed by https://bringatrailer.com/2014/10/18/huit-chevaux-twin-engined-1968-citroen-2cv-rally-project/

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