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hudson29 said:When I bought my '72 the previous owner said something about it having been a Combat at one time.
What are the telltale marks of a combat? Were they serialized?
The cylinder head (& carbs), pistons and camshaft were different between "standard" specification and Combat engines (and I believe the later '72 standard engines also got the stronger Combat pistons) and Combat engines usually had black cylinder barrels.
Any Commando engine within the approximate serial number range 200000 (officially from 200976) - 211110 could potentially have been built to Combat spec. originally-as the factory apparently produced more Combats than standard tune engines during that period.