A day with two straight six-cylinder engines - a little puzzle for people with good eyes/ears
They are becoming increasingly rare, the six-cylinder engines, those with cylinders in a row anyway. It used to be different. Almost every manufacturer of more or less fast cars had an in-line six in their range. After all, they were almost unbeatable in terms of smooth running and performance.
Yesterday we had the opportunity to enjoy two of these gourmet pieces. The first (pictured above) was a magnificent 2963 cm3 engine which, thanks to fuel injection and a relatively high compression ratio of 9.4:1, produced around 180 DIN horsepower at 5800 rpm. It sounded something like this:
The second car was a little older, but its six cylinders were also nicely lined up. A displacement of 2494 cm3 was enough to produce 150 hp at 6000 rpm with two downdraft register carburetors and a compression ratio of 9:1.
And it sounded something like this:
Well, we don't want to solve the little mystery surrounding the two six-cylinder engines quite yet, but we would be interested to know whether this information is enough for our readers to correctly identify the two engines. Anyone who has a guess can simply add it as a comment below the short article.
We will definitely solve the mystery in the next few weeks, at the latest when we publish the reports on the two cars.
