Car Trivia

[Art Anderson]

OK,

Now for an easy one. In business still today, this American marque, in business since the early 20th Century, has NEVER produced a flathead engine for automobile use. Can you name it? (hint: There are actually two of them)

And if that's not enough, can you name the one that never produced either a straight 8 under their own badge, and NEVER produced a straight 6?

Art

Everybody give up on this one?

Art

[Modelmartin]

Everybody give up on this one?

Art

You wore us out! You are King of the Hill !!!

Andy

[lordairgtar]

OK,

Now for an easy one. In business still today, this American marque, in business since the early 20th Century, has NEVER produced a flathead engine for automobile use. Can you name it? (hint: There are actually two of them)

And if that's not enough, can you name the one that never produced either a straight 8 under their own badge, and NEVER produced a straight 6?

Art

Would that be Buick which never made a flattie?

[Art Anderson]

Would that be Buick which never made a flattie?

lordairgtar,

That would be correct! Buick, from their very beginnings in 1915, produced only "valve-in-head" engines, never seriously considering any sort of flathead (or side-valve) engine designs.

(Incidently, Chevrolet never produced a flathead engine in the US, either!)

The carmaker who never produced an inline 6, nor a straight 8, under their own brand is Cadillac. Some may argue that the '34-'36 LaSalle straight 8 was a Cadillac engine, but it was more correctly and Oldsmobile straight 8, assembled as a LaSalle engine only (and now you know how LaSalle could have those gorgeous tall, narrow, "electric razor" grilles, but there was never a straight 8 in any car badged as a Cadillac.

Art