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The 1933-’39 Packard V-12 was a product of the “cylinder wars” of the early 1930s. When Packard began production at the turn of the century, most cars used single-cylinder engines or perhaps twins.

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A minor inaccuracy sneaked into Ben Stein's excellent memoir about car-buying in the 1950s [Outlook, July 15]. Although the Studebaker Golden Hawk surely was "the coolest car on earth," it did not ...