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03-06-2014, 01:44 PM | #1 |
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Hemmings Motor News
Just received my April 2014 issue of HMN. Cover and feature cars are a 30 Roadster and 29 Tudor. Interesting write up, according to the article Ford had planned on replacing the T the summer 1926 and had "pinned his hopes that the successor to the T would be powered by an unusual eight-cylinder X-configuration engine, with four banks of twin cylinders arranged opposite each other in the shape of an X---one set at two o'clock, another at four, another at eight and the final set at 10 o'clock."
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03-06-2014, 02:10 PM | #2 |
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Here's a picture of the X8 at The Henry Ford in Dearborn.
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03-06-2014, 02:41 PM | #3 |
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I'd sure like to know what it sounded like. Does anyone have a blow-up of the engine showing its crank, rods, cam, followers, induction and exhaust systems, etc?
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03-06-2014, 03:39 PM | #4 |
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Kind of looks like a radial aircraft engine . . ..
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03-06-2014, 05:50 PM | #5 |
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That is what I was thinking. Ford was involved in airplane manufacturing during the war.
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03-06-2014, 06:34 PM | #6 |
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03-07-2014, 12:13 PM | #7 |
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It's not a Ford but still an interesting rotary engine powered car from 1906!
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03-08-2014, 01:52 PM | #8 |
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Neat to read an article about the Model A Fords. Good points made by the editor about the collectibility of a Model A. Hemmings does a pretty good job with their articles about different car stuff. The for sale ads are kinda weak these days compared to pre-Internet but things change.
They said B-J set new records, and what caught my eye was the attendance,,,, 300,000!!! Wow. I don't think we have to worry about the old car hobby dying off, in any of OUR lifetimes regardless of the gloom and doom you here |
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