Tag: 1944 Packard 4M-2500 Marine V12 Engine

By the time Angus Hopper turned fifteen, he’d already developed two lifelong interests: machinery and poor judgment. Both came to a head one muggy Saturday in 1974 at Academy Surplus, a blocky, low-ceilinged building on a scruffy stretch of Highway 10 outside Fort Stockton—back before the name “Sports + Outdoors” got slapped on and the…