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"That's an engine, specifically, an aluminum air-cooled 1792-cubic-inch V-12 making 810 horsepower and 1590 pound-feet of torque. Doesn't ring any bells? Uncle Sam ordered up thousands of this mother of all motors for the 51-ton M-47 Patton tank, the nation's first line of defense against communists, aliens, the Blob, anything that threatened America in the '50s. Powered by gasoline at first, the engines were quickly converted to diesel when gasoline proved touchy in the presence of exploding munitions."
