Category:Hoffman X-8

1935 Hoffman X-8 was made once only:

• designed/built by automobile engineer Roscoe "Rod" Hoffman, Detroit.
• Hoffman owned it until 1961, then in Brooks Stevens museum until 2010
• all-steel body by Budd, originally gunmetal gray, painted "Packard blue" by Stevens
• X8 prototypical engine (8 cylinders laid out as an "X"), water cooled, overhead valves, twin cams, 170 cubic inches

References edit

• Daniel Strohl, Despite lingering mystery of its origins, Rod Hoffman’s X-8 receives automotive heritage award, 20 June 2019