From 1972 through 1997, you could get a tarted up Jaguar XJ6 sold as a Daimler and either a simple Sovereign name for the inline-6 or the lofty Double-Six name for the V12. It is a strange car to find out in the wild, but not quite as strange as this 6-wheeled Purple Thunder El […]
The Jaguar V12 (1971-1997) engine was first sold in the E-Type road car, but the design was originally created for the mad XJ13 LeMans racer. A few years later, the engine was stuffed into the Malcolm Sayer/Doug Thorpe designed XJS, which is/was a beautiful car from any angle…except from the window at the service writer’s […]
This next car comes as a tip from Johnny Bouncewell who writes: Oh man. We’ve all been there. No matter how deep you dive into aa project, it sometimes just doesn’t work. Someone please buy this so I don’t. I already have a Jag I haven’t (though probably should) admitted my own defeat. Find this […]
If you don’t know who John Dodd is…well…lemme tell ya…I didn’t have the foggiest until about 5 minutes ago, but I can tell you that he was a legend for building the 27 liter Merlin V12 powered beast that you see here today. The original version of the car had a Roll Royce signature grill […]
It isn’t hard to find a good classic for cheap, but it is hard to find a V12 powered car with a targa style soft top with a roll hoop…what is this???!? This is one of 3864 examples of the Jaguar XJ that was converted by Tickford Ltd into a targa style thing and it […]
This next feature is interesting in several ways. First it is a V12 SL600 Mercedes-Benz from the R129 generation of the SL-class, which is something to behold on its own. Next is the seller’s story about drug dealer who got it impounded by the DEA and lastly it has been sitting for the past 5 […]
If anybody ever says to you “my Suburban is a real gas guzzler”, I suggest you buy this car so that you can respond “no…MY Suburban is a real gas guzzler!” This next car isn’t the Suburban you typically think of..this is a ’51 Plymouth Suburban, but the original engine is holding a boat in […]
The Mercedes-Benz SL600 is a complex beast that is powered by a lean mean M120 V12 that pushes something around 389 horsepower into a slushbox automatic transmission. These cars are known to require a thick stack of cash to keep properly maintained, but with only 56k on the odometer, how much maintenance could this really […]
I’ve been pretty brutal on kit cars that look like they are fast/fun, but have the performance figures of a Prius (see Volkswagen powered kit cars et al). However, it isn’t the ACTUAL zero-to-60 performance that is important, but the experience. You want that car that makes you feel like a kid again, and that […]
Back in the late 1950s, the engineers at GMC had a problem. They had a good inline-6 for their commercial trucks and a few decent V8s to choose from, but the inlines-6 were more rugged and reliable than the powerful V8. So they did the only logical thing, which was the combine two inline-6 engines into a single V12 with a ginormous cast cylinder block and a 180 lb crankshaft. Hitting the scales at 1486 lbs, the Twin-6 V12 was a 702 cubic inch behemoth that made 565 ft-lbs of torque just off idle and a whopping 275 horsepower at 2400 rpm. It is, for better or worse, the most modern V12 ever built by GM…and I think I just found an engine for the next RX-8 I find with a busted Wankel, because this about the opposite you can ever get from a rotary without going to steam power. Where would you swap this 1960-1965 GMC Twin-6 702 V12 offered for $3500 in Palenville, NY via ebay?