Was this the original bugeye??

[gooseman]

http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/ ... 67,00.html
Of course we had the bugeye Sprite and some of the Midas-es are a little on the bugeye side .....

[gooseman]

Quite a nice little motor, SOHC: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Crosl ... engine.jpg

[manifold]

fascinating:

What killed the Hotshot was its engine, a dual-overhead cam .75-liter four cylinder, not cast in iron but brazed together from pieces of stamped tin. When these brazed welds let go, as they often did, things quickly got noisy, and hot.