Daimler Majestic Major: A 4.5 liter limo engine that was engineered at the same time as the 2.5 liter sports car engine.
https://www.motortrend.com/how-to/hemi-engines-ford-chevy-oldsmobile-ardun-big-small-block/ This page referenced many, but one that I was not aware of is Aston Martin. I knew they did a nice V8, but didn't know it was a hemi although a DOHC one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemispherical_combustion_chamber
Does it have to be a V8? WO Bentleys were Hemis. 3 litre, 4 cylinder, overhead cam, 4 valves per cylinder, Hemi combustion chamber and dry sumped all on a road car in 1919
Yeh, life is good right! Never owned a hemi but some of my first busted knuckles were from a friends 66 Belverdere street hemi sedan that he campaigned as a SS/D car around here. Purely talking money, he probably looks back thinking boy, did I ever mess up when I sold that car (as a roller), I found out some years later that the next owner put a 318 in it. Can you imagine stumbling on that thing and after running the numbers discover what you have, ($$$). Knowing you are in Central Oregon, you will like this..... The first time I ever went down the quarter mile was at Madras Drag Strip (as a p***enger) in that car, early 70's, just out of high school, wheels up, dodging rabbits and tumbleweeds.
Well, yah; I'm kinda partial to & liking the small 4-banger Toyota hemi, ~72-ish. & also the nearly unobtainium aircooled Tatra v8. Marcus...
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