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Originally Posted by Joeaksa

Continental and Lycoming were making both radial and horiz opposed air cooled engines long before Porsche was in business.

That said, the engines are very much alike in many ways and it would not be a stretch to assume that the old man had seen a horiz opposed aircraft engine and decided to incorporate it or its ideas into his cars.

I guess you could say he was a German Preston Tucker.