While you might already be familiar with the classic V8 engine, there were actually inline-eight engines once upon a time too ...

Packard and Pontiac were the last automakers to produce straight-engine engines for US passenger cars. Both were discontinued in 1954.

As for Chrysler, they went to great lengths to avoid the V8 fad at first, ensuring their much-beloved straight-eight engines lasted past the end of the war, even into the very early 1950s. This is the ...