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Examples
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Though I wonder how the mileage is on a 12. 7-liter straight-8 engine.
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It weighed approximately 3175 kg (7000 lb) and used a 12.7 L (12763 cc/778 in³) straight-8 engine.
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STR8FAN is easily interpeted as “my car has a forced-air straight-8 engine”.
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The huge, straight-8 engine on a 1935 Duesenberg JN Roadster (another gift from Lombard to Gable) is exhausted through external side pipes that look like industrial ducting -- and were probably put on the car just for looks, or so I was told by Ken Gross, the outside automotive expert brought in to work on this art museum show.
'The Allure of the Automobile' at Atlanta's High Museum by Blake Gopnik 2010
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STR8FAN is easily interpeted as “my car has a forced-air straight-8 engine”.
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Sales of the 78 would be eclipsed the following year when Marmon introduced its Roosevelt the first straight-8 car to sell for less than $1,000.
Columbia Missourian: Latest Articles The Associated Press 2010
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Years of exposure to the elements have left the straight-8 roadster with the rumble seat little more than a rust-colored shell, but this did little to deter the new owner - an unnamed buyer who will now pay to have the car packaged and shipped overseas.
Columbia Missourian: Latest Articles The Associated Press 2010
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Years of exposure to the elements have left the straight-8 roadster with the rumble seat little more than a rust-colored shell, but this did little to deter the new owner - an unnamed buyer who will now pay to have the car packaged and shipped overseas.
Columbia Missourian: Latest Articles The Associated Press 2010
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Years of exposure to the elements have left the straight-8 roadster with the rumble seat little more than a rust-colored shell, but this did little to deter the new owner - an unnamed buyer who will now pay to have the car packaged and shipped overseas.
Columbia Missourian: Latest Articles The Associated Press 2010
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Sales of the 78 would be eclipsed the following year when Marmon introduced its Roosevelt the first straight-8 car to sell for less than $1,000.
Columbia Missourian: Latest Articles The Associated Press 2010
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