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One for the Historybuffs- Lost V-12
This showed up in an edit pack I received for proofing... a really amazing bit of history that should make the SOHC buffs salivate.
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http://www.saac.com/files/newsletter/0412/v12sohc.jpg Click on the thumb for the full article: http://www.saac.com/files/newsletter...th-v12sohc.jpg |
Amazing they were able to build that literally under the nose of The Deuce without him being any the wiser!
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"sent to the scrapyard"....
Can you imagine what those engines would be worth now? |
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Perhaps this was to power the SEVENTH Daytona Coupe SAAC found a few April firsts ago? |
I was waiting for the April Fools joke.
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Shame . I heard of a similar fate to several Jaguar XJ13 V12 engines at the factory in the 1970s.
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Had this story come out on any day other than April 1st. Good one!
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You should be ashamed of yourself. :p
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excellent photochoping work, I must say :LOL:
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You are a bad man...I love it!
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I had one in an AFX Mustang in 65 I really did!
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posted on 1-11-2002 on Ford Muscle Forums
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Almost wet dream stuff.When I first started my kit the Cammer was my first choice of powerplants.A V12? where in the engine bay could you ever stuff 4 more cylinders.
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https://encrypted-tbn0.google.com/im...1xHh9gXn_RCJPg |
CW, You funny GI!!
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Didn't the concept 90 done before GT40 show car, have a V12?
I think it did.Ford
made a 6.0 V12 48v 720 hp Quad Turbocharged engine. And of course the last Lincoln V-12 (Model K) delivered on January 24, 1940 had a V12 but a very low revving one. ironically though I think it inspired Ferrari to make his postwar car a V12. I think Ford could have made V12s at various times but were suffering a crisis of confidence, thinking we aren't a fancy enough company to have a V12. |
The last Lincoln V12 was 1948 not 1940.
I would think Enzo was more influenced by Alfa Romeo V12's, where he worked for many years, or Alfa Romeo rather than Ford. ;) |
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I am not sure Alfa ever did a V12, they did do a "Bimotore" car with two six cylinders powering the chassis. |
I agree Packard would have been another influence on Enzo.
The Alfa was called the '12C' in 1936 http://www.supercars.net/carpics/277...Romeo_12C2.jpg The Bimotore, I believe, was a twin straight engines. One in front and one behind the driver. http://www.atlasf1.com/2000/bri/okeefe02.jpg |
LOL, had me going for a minute
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