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01-03-2013 09:08 AM
Thanks for the pic. Elegant motors.
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01-03-2013 12:54 PM
that is indeed a beautiful engine and my, what a lot of pipes!
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01-04-2013 06:13 AMWhat was/is the advantage of the Lambo engines for boats? Compared to how many cars they build, there sure were quite a few in boats.....
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01-04-2013 01:02 PMI suppose one should get a definitive answer from the guys who decided to use them,but I tend to think,when the lambos appeared it was at a time when the OP1 fleets in Europe were 30+ on a regular basis,mainly Italian,so to have Italian engines in Italian built boats were a good patriotic thing to achieve,rather like Jaguar engines in British boats,except that fell flat.Trick was,to find an engine as reliable as the Mercruiser,which takes some doing for smaller nations.Mind you, diesels were another story re Isottas and Seateks,but they don`t have the wow factor in the U.S.Always quite amusing to see Buzzi wind the yanks up on this,and then go out and beat em!
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01-04-2013 01:27 PM
They made a specific marinised version of one of their big gas engines, diesels were relatively unrefined in those days and the big Class One boats needed big horsepower - In addition Class One was very well supported in Italy in those days with powerboat racing probably biggest in that country for this side of the Atlantic (and still is).
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