This is a 1940 Luscombe 8C that I owned in the late '80's.  It had the original dash, and a rather unique engine set up.

The engine was a fuel injected Continental 75 h.p..  It had a little mechanical  wobble pump that  gave a

shot of fuel to each cylinder in turn.  Did not have a carb heat control.  Worked pretty good, but was a real ornery

thing to get started.  It had no electrical system, so had to be hand propped, and you basically had to flood the engine

with the primer (prime until you see it leaking!) then open the throttle a smidgeon (make sure the thing was well

tied down, or someone was on the brakes) and  spin it through.  Most of the time it worked!  The plane flew beauti-

fully,  but had to sell it when we moved out here in the country.  My 1200 foot runway was not enough to begin to

get it slowed down.  What you never wanted to do in a Luscombe was put on the brakes!! That's why they were

so in-efficient.  I sold it to a fellow from the South East and he subsequently put an O-200 intake manifold and

carburetor on it.

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