Reply With QuoteI was at the Tokyo Auto Show in Nov 71, saw the 72 burgundy 240ZG on display. I took a couple of pics of the ZG, didn't see anything of Minto powered Z. Maybe a different model?
Steam powered DATSUN from the FACTORY ?
I have not looked into this yet but i thought i would share this with you.
Minto steam engine.
Minto signed a contract to produce 100 steam engines for NISSAN
to use in production 1972 datsuns.
Anybody know anything about this.
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id...t+datsun&hl=en
http://books.google.com/books?id=QwE...engine&f=false
http://www.rexresearch.com/minto/minto.htm
http://www.steamautomobile.com/archi...v14n3.CV01.pdf
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I was at the Tokyo Auto Show in Nov 71, saw the 72 burgundy 240ZG on display. I took a couple of pics of the ZG, didn't see anything of Minto powered Z. Maybe a different model?
Great find! Great read!
gold man, great read in the morning. truly what goes around, comes around.
haven't heard anything on this at all, but really excited to learn about it! thanks
1977 Datsun 280z, 4/77, 81k original miles. Been stored under a tree, just waiting for me.
Now a daily driver, see its progress at www.DailyDatsun.com
The #2 link shows a wagon maybe 510. I guess this project must have went to the storage
room.
More here.
http://news.google.com/newspapers?ni...g=6616,7555889
"Wallace Minto devised a steamer which used fluorocarbon fluid instead of water and interested Nissan in it. But it never saw production."
http://www.theautochannel.com/mania/...ry/chap15.html
http://books.google.com/books?id=QwE...0engine&f=true
http://news.google.com/newspapers?ni...g=6976,3819614
http://news.google.com/newspapers?ni...g=6825,3946623
http://newspaperarchive.com/indiana-...0-08-19/page-8
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I know a thing or two about it. I am Wallace Kevin MintoOriginally Posted by black gold man
I know a thing or two about it. I am Wallace Kevin Minto
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btw the $20 coffee maker in the ad in the first link (Palm Beach Post Aug 1970) is now ~$40..... Can you imagine if gas, food, and cars only doubled in price since then?
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There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply.
The person who buys on price alone is this man's lawful prey.
John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
ZCars in Eastern Canada seaport ready for shipment to Europe
http://ZSportCanada.com
Lets hear your story.
What is Minto powered today.
Is it like the railroad locomotives in the old days, you have to have a guy in the back shoveling coal?
Category: Rogers Photo Archive
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Description : Sarasota Inventor Wallace Minto, Left, who decide to do something about environmental pollution and claims he has invented a pollution-free engine, is shown with assistant Joseph Nugent Friday as they view the 56-pound freon engine in a converted Datsun. Datsun has signed a multimillion dollar contract with minto.
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https://www.argentaimages.com/media/...ientist/page/2
Who has the RARE MINTO 510.
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