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The Jag engine you mentioned indeed looked like a V12, but unless your dad found an old V12 of another brand somewhere, it was a dual overhead cam six cylinder. The "V" atop the engine for the overhead cams fooled many in those days, and I even recall such reaction to a 4.2L DOHC six in my 1965 XKE.
You indeed appear to have been a fortunate young man. My father thought negatively about cars. They strictly were a means to get from point A to point B. He serviced them only on a whim; never to schedule. In his later years I do not know how the "slant-six" engine in a 1980s Dodge pickup survived. Didn't matter if it were 10 degrees or 100F, when it fired he floor-boarded it for what, to a motorhead as was I, seemed an eternity. Often I just stood back in case it blew up. Engine would NOT quit. I still have it stored in the back of a garage on an engine stand I have. Pickup itself is in another garage here with a 5.7 Hemi halfway in.
I suppose, with my mother a school teacher, they thought "gentleman" would never "take" on me. So, I grew up in a little dirtball West Texas town where everyone trusted everybody else and door locks were never used on vehicles or homes.
Enjoyed your note, Adam!
jhc
You indeed appear to have been a fortunate young man. My father thought negatively about cars. They strictly were a means to get from point A to point B. He serviced them only on a whim; never to schedule. In his later years I do not know how the "slant-six" engine in a 1980s Dodge pickup survived. Didn't matter if it were 10 degrees or 100F, when it fired he floor-boarded it for what, to a motorhead as was I, seemed an eternity. Often I just stood back in case it blew up. Engine would NOT quit. I still have it stored in the back of a garage on an engine stand I have. Pickup itself is in another garage here with a 5.7 Hemi halfway in.
I suppose, with my mother a school teacher, they thought "gentleman" would never "take" on me. So, I grew up in a little dirtball West Texas town where everyone trusted everybody else and door locks were never used on vehicles or homes.
Enjoyed your note, Adam!
jhc
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