Who did get Smokeys patent of the Hot Vapor engine?
Then nothing. and nothing.
Don't know about the patents, but a lot of his special tooling went over to Ocala and put into Don Garlit's museum.... Jeff
"Len" wrote..
If that's the one where he used a supercharger along with heating the incoming air and fuel mixture to increase the performance of the car along with the gas mileage, they wouldn't give him any patents on it. I wanted to duplicate his system so I checked online with the patent office. It seems there was a patent or two given out years before Smokey's system that the patent office said preceded his design. I looked at the earlier system [don't remember what it was called or even what the darn thing was for] and it resembled Smokey's about as much as a tricycle resembles an Avanti. In my opinion just another case of big money [oil and auto industry] controling things, with across the board gov't connections.
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