Originally Posted by Lionel2056:
The 38D8 is a Fairbanks-Morse engine. It was used in submarines, and for some bizarre reason I thought it was a locomotive engine. With cars though, I was thinking of an enlarged car, large enough to support such an engine.
Its not bizarre at all. Fairbanks-Morse used them in their line of diesel locomotives, in six, eight, ten, and twelve cylinder configurations.
Stuart