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1923/24 Templar 6 Cyl models??


Bud Tierney

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Templar m'f'd a smaller almost hand built luxury car and their own 4Cyl engine 1917-24...near their end they announced work has begun on a 6Cyl engine and that the 4Cyl would be continued. A few of my old parts catalogs do list a 1924 Templar 6, a couple listing (but not ID'ing) a Falls engine...

Falls Motor Cptn was also circling the drain about this time, trying to get their straight 8 into production (it reportedly became the Buick 8)...

Std Cat lists a 1924 Templar 6 model...

David Buehler, the Lakewood Templar collector/guru, has extensive information, but so far nothing as to actually produced 6s; his registry lists no 6s, nor can he recall hearing of any...

My assumption is Templar ran out of money; that if any 6s produced they were prototypes; that either Falls offered their off-the-shelf 6s to save themselves, or Templar, looking for low cost 6s, got an advantageous bid from by then desperate Falls (or both) but that no actual 6s were assembled before Receivership/Bkcy overcame Templar, or, at best, maybe a few for showing...

So: does anyone here have any old car books or other sources that mention whether any Templar 6s were actually built and/or shown??? Numerous online reports mention 4s, but no auto show etc 6s; on the other hand, Google's become capricious...

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