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2 unusual facts about Bill Devin


Panhard Dyna X

In 1954 a French car dealer in Hollywood found itself with a number of complete Panhard chassis and engines and sold them to racer Bill Devin, who quickly developed a fibreglass roadster body and marketed them as Devin-Panhards.

Vauxhall Slant-4 engine

Unveiled in 1966, it was one of the first production overhead camshaft designs to use a rubber toothed belt to drive the camshaft from the crankshaft (an honor shared with the 1966 Pontiac OHC Six, and also the Fiat DOHC engine of 1966), a method developed in 1956 by Bill Devin.



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