MINIATURE ENGINES    

Working Scale Models  
of Internal Combustion  
Engines sponsored by  


Bay Area Engine Modelers  

 
 
 

MINIATURE INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES OFT APPEAR
AT THE CONCOURS d'ELEGANCE IN PALO ALTO

 


 BAEM - the Bay Area Engine Modelers - are the zen masters of the internal combustion engine. These guys build perfect scale models of internal combustion engines that actually operate as designed. Think about it! You don't just have to understand how every single part fits together and works individually and collectively! You have to machine each of these parts with very little tolerance for error.

Contemplate the mind required for this kind of modeling - the clarity and precision of thought, the steadiness of purpose, the patience. BAEMers are real interesting guys. If you stop and chat, you can learn more about the history of automotive technology and why engines are made as they are, then you can anywhere else on the Concours field.

One of the wonderful things about BAEM models is that, on one long table, side by side, you can see and compare engines that recapitulate 70 years of automotive history, beginning in the early 20th century. You can see cutaway engines in which all the parts move.

Visit the BAEM web site.

 

 

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Challenger V-8 by Paul Knapp
Overhead valve V-8 by Roger Butzen
 

Twin cam in-line four w/throttle-body
electronic fuel injection, by Lee Root
Wall Four by Dick Pretel
 

1/4 scale Offenhauser 270 cu. in.
by Bob Haagensen
1/4 scale 1932 Ford Roadster
by Red Garlough
PALO ALTO CONCOURS d'ELEGANCE on the fields at STANFORD UNIVERSITY