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The Templar car was the best-known of several American attempts to make a high-grade small car just after World War 1, but the Templar car was just as surely doomed by the development of American tastes in automobiles. The Templar car was a well-proportioned machine, with radiator and body well within the wheelbase. Materials and finish were superb, the aluminium bodies of the Templar car being given 27 coats of paint. The 3-litre (later 3.2-litre) ‘Top-Valve’ (i.e. overhad-valve) engine of the Templar car was smooth in spite of having only 4 cylinders, and very clean in appearance. The engine of the Templar car was also more efficient than most American power units. Much aluminium was found beneath the bonnet, too. Standard equipment in the roadster Templar car included a compass and a Kodak camera. A 3½-litre six Templar car was also listed for 1917 only. A 4.3-litre 6-cylinder engine was listed at the end of the Templar cars career.
Source: Georgano, encyclopedia of motorcar; TRN
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