"If the engine is well and truly stuck, the price is about right. Getting them apart if they are seized is no small task. These engines would do huge mileages for the time; 100,000 or more was unremarkable. The Knight system was not the best sleeve valve system, that's true. The Burt McCollum system was really good though, and was able to outperform any poppet valve engine of the time. A case for their use and development can be made even today. I'm lucky to have been around long enough to hear…"
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