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Rainer Schmid, earlier winner of PreWarCar's 'Spirit of the Event' Trophy at Vintage Montlhéry with his Sénéchal tandem racer is now working on a new project. This based on an amazing eight cylinder engine he found. Aside all engineering aspects in our view the first problem is what name to give to the beast. Offline Eight? Shortened Straight Eight? U-Eight? Zero Degrees V8? Rainer has no clue regarding maker or origin yet it looks european and vintage. The engine has one cast block with two parallel cylinder banks. And there is a number reading 2-448816. Of course one could also say it is a straight eight with offset placement of four and four cylinders. We are most curious to learn what our more educated readers have to say about this intricate piece of machinery! (oops, nearly forgot to show you the crank side of things)
Chris Marchal refers to the interesting cycle car make Causan . Némorin Causan was also involved in the design of aero engines. Also the engine is showing similar genese as this 1919 SCAP