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Rubber Band Drive

my dad being a motor mechanic. I first saw a cam belt on a car engine (possibly a Cortina) when it had broken with the resultant carnage sometime in the mid to late-1970s and made my mind up then that they were not a ‘good thing’. Far too complex compared to the overhead valve (ohv) pushrod engines I was used to.

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