Sorry for falling off the “test your gearhead knowledge” wagon this last couple of days. We’re back and better than ever to make up for the gap in our hardcore trivia questions. The answer to the last challenge was correctly guessed by one reader (if we remember correctly) as a 1927 Packard straight eight. The engine was one of the greats of its day, coming in at about 327ci and making a shade over 100hp. Although not a screamer by modern standards, it made plenty of hp and torque to shuffle the big Packards of the day down the road. It was seen as something of a marvel in the late 1920s and we’ve read that Packards equipped with this engine could make some 80mph, which was jet plane fast for that time.
We’re going way old on you again with this challenge. The photos come from our pals at Valley Head Service in Northridge, California and they’re from the archives as this was work done long before the age of the digital camera. We’ll throw you ONE singular hint on this mill. It isn’t an American piece.
Get after it! Tell us the make and what model this engine was offered in!
Tecumseh?
Fiat.
Looks like 1/2 of a 1910 (or thereabouts) Rolls Royce Siver Ghost.
Hat tip HemiJoel.
I think ya got it. I 2nd the guess.
I beat my brains out on this thing this morning before I had to leave.
I was thinking Bentley, so I was at least in the right country 🙂