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"For two years, the little-known H.H. Buffum produced an 80hp passenger version of its 100hp Central Greyhound racing car, which was named after Central Automobile of New York. It was the first eight-cylinder engine offered in a regular-production American automobile. Described as "octuple opposed," it came from Edward Buffum's racing boats and comprised two Buffum inline-fours laid flat facing away from each other, sharing a central crankshaft, with a 4 1/2-inch bore and 5 1/2-inch stroke, measuring 699.8 cubic inches. If that isn't enough, The Automobile described Buffum's hand-hammered alloy body as "one of the finest pieces of automobile construction ever shown....This car is the work of a mechanic of the class to which all makeshift is abhorrent." Buffum topped it all off by next tilting his pair of fours up and offering a 40hp V-8 for 1905 or 1906, either the first or second V-8 in an American automobile."
