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Three-liter engine with dry sump lubrication. Mercedes 300SL 1956

Richard, as a long term Porsche fan, I ever considered the flat six as looking a tad like the innards of a washing machine.
While the Williams version is tidy and no doubt technically about as good as it gets for the flat six, though an original Jag XK engine as it came out the factory with those twin alloy cam covers and black enamelled exhaust manifolds, takes some beating as a standard production unit....?

George, I'm in total agreement with you and I have a really good picture of one somewhere which I'll endeavor to dig out later.

I always admired and enjoyed our AMI 8 with it's flat twin 602cc but it looked like a pile of cardboard and bent tin ducting under the lid.

Similar could be said about our Scimitar GTE with it's very useful Essex V6 under the lid, not a pretty sight but a great flexible unit.

Meantime a few great units here..





And then 4 x Packard POWER

A wee bit modified, but still lovely to behold..

Le rhone rotary engine

Many thanks for posting the pic of the modified Jag XK engine Richard, though to my eyes the original unmodified with polished rocker covers and shining black enamelled exhaust manifolds is the one that really impressed me as a youngster on seeing for the very first time the engineering marvel that lurked under the hood of a Jag....

One of Swindon's finest that used to take me to & from school at Broadsands crossing Brunel's viaduct & heading for Paignton.


Slightly down hill and a 20mph limit so no steam.

Thank you George, here we go just for you and fellow lovers of the straight six.