I’m not sure if any engine built today will still be salvageable 100 years from now. Not to sound like a grump, but so much relies on computers that will surely be obsolete by then. And let’s not get ...

One hundred was a lot of horsepower in 1914, even for an 8.0-liter engine in a low-production luxury car. Yet 100 was the figure claimed for the remarkable Stearns-Knight Six, of which at least 350 ...

American publisher Charles Knight was not at all impressed with his new 1901 Knox ‘gasoline runabout’. Like some other cars of the era, its four-stroke engine relied on a single valve to permit both ...

SLEEVE-VALVE ENGINES MAY NOW BE obscure automotive history, but they were once popular powerplants worldwide and could be found in the English Daimler and Belgian Minerva, among others. The best-known ...

The ultraminiature M3SV-N threaded slide-sleeve valve controls gas or liquid in an in-line configuration. The 4.6-gm valve can be attached directly in a fluid circuit and requires no panel mounting.

Willys was on a business trip to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1899 when he saw his first car. He was mesmerized. He noticed the tremendous interest people showed seeing a horseless carriage drive down the ...