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Engines au Naturel: An Unfettered Look Under the Hood at Some of History’s Most Significant Engines

–Knowing exactly what bait attracts car enthusiasts, the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation in Dearborn, Michigan, hosts an Engines Exposed party every year. While visiting this horsepower show, we picked 28 favorites from the more than 60 engines on display, taking the liberty of include one aircraft engine, one train, and one motorcycle in our selection. (Most horsepower figures are SAE gross ratings.) The Engines Exposed exhibit runs through February 28 at the Henry Ford, which is open every day. Transportation curator Matt Anderson will share his expert insights at the museum’s Drive-In Theater at 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, February 18.–1896 Henry Ford Quadricycle–1902 Ford 999–1907 White Model G Steam Touring Car–1909 Ford Model T–1913 Scripps-Booth Rocket–1916 Woods Dual-Power–1918 Liberty L-12–1931 Duesenberg Model J–1931 Bugatti Type 41 Royale–1932 Ford V-8–1935 Miller-Ford racer–1936 Lincoln Zephyr V-12–1937 Cord 812–The most photographed object at the Henry Ford is also the largest engine in the house. Designed to haul coal up mountain grades, the Allegheny steam locomotive weighed 389 tons and produced 7500 horsepower. One pulling and a second pushing transported 140 loaded cars per trip until diesel locomotives retired them in the 1950s.–1943 Willys-Overland Jeep–Before the curtain dropped on his bold stroke, Preston Tucker produced 51 cars powered by a modified Franklin aircraft engine. This water-cooled, rear-mounted 334-cubic-inch flat-six produced 166 horsepower.–Volkswagen Beetle–1951 Crosley Hotshot–1951 Studebaker Champion Starlight–1955 Chevrolet Corvette–1956 Continental Mark II–The 354-cubic-inch Hemi V-8 powering Chrysler’s hottest letter-series coupes produced up to 355 horsepower from the factory, more when tuned by Carl Kiekhaefer’s crack NASCAR mechanics. His team won 16 races in a row in 1956.–1960 Chevrolet Corvair–Well before the first production Mustang rolled forth at the 1964 New York World’s Fair, Ford engineer Roy Lunn created a brilliant warmup now known as Mustang I. This mid-engined two-seat roadster prototype was powered by a Ford Cardinal 1.5-liter V-4 producing 109 horsepower.–Leaving no stone unturned, Chrysler Corporation pursued gas turbine engines for automobile use from 1954 through 1977. This fourth-generation version produced 130 horsepower and revved to 44,500 rpm.–1965 Summers Brothers Goldenrod–Taking its best shot at Indy, Ford teamed with Lotus and driver Jim Clark to score the first ever Indianapolis 500 win for a mid-engined car. The DOHC V-8 produced 495 horsepower from 256 cubic inches and was one of the first “hot-V” designs with exhaust ports located on the inboard side of the cylinder heads.–1967 Ford GT40 Mark IV–The first superbike, Honda’s CB750, was produced starting in 1969 and sent British motorcycles packing. Its SOHC inline-four delivered 67 horsepower from 0.75 liter.–Well ahead of any real interest in electric cars, GM built and leased 1117 EV1 two-seat coupes powered by a 137-hp AC motor. Only 40 or survived the crusher when GM returned to the drawing boards to apply lessons learned to the Chevrolet Volt.–Exclusion from the U.S. government’s Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles with domestic makers drove Toyota to create what became the first successful line of hybrids. Launched here in 2000, Toyota’s Prius harnessed a 1.5-liter 76-hp inline-four to a 55-hp motor/generator.—
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