Originally Posted by +8Rich
Maybe not the same but you would love to crack the throttles open these 48 pots I reckon. The sound well love

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It's a USA challenge boat of the era..

Is that Gar Wood's Miss America X thinking. This boasted four Packard V12 aero engines. Inline pairs had their crankshafts directly coupled and carefully phased to allow them to function as V24 units, a feat Packard said was impossible. Each of the four was capable of 1600 hp scared allowing it to be the first to exceed 125 mph!

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It won him back the speedboat cup during 1932-33 from us Brits who's boat had the new superior Merlin engines, but only two.