[ale] CARS and engines

[Scott Castaline]

On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 11:01 -0400, Jim wrote:
> Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
> > On Monday 19 June 2006 22:50, fostermail at bellsouth.net wrote:
> > | Only Math\Co Fords had 287's
> >
> > By 1957 the Ford "small block" 260 had been bored out to 289 cubes.
> > My roommate in college had a '57 Ford stationwagon with that engine.
> > He (and the car) were from New Hampshire and the entire car was a
> > rust bucket, held together by the chrome trim.
> >
> > Recently I went looking for a replacement vehicle and wandered in to 
> > a local Pontiac dealer and asked to see "a Goat." None of the salesmen
> > on the floor, nor the sales manager, had a clue what I was talking about!
> >
> > Finally found one (in Northern Virginia) I could test drive.  Goes like
> > stink.  The back seat is totally useless.  Only small monkeys can crawl
> > back there. There are no hand grips -- so no place to hang anything. The
> > one I looked at didn't come with "run-flat" tires and had a totally
> > useless doughnut for a spare.
> >
> > Sean
> >
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> The 260 didn't come along until later.  The first Ford overhead v-8 
> engines were 232 "Y" block engines released sometime in the early  50's 
> to replace the flathead v-8s. It was  followed by the 252, the 292 and 
> then the 312 in 1957 or 1958.  The 221 was a completely redesigned 
> engine and was designed to compete with the very successful Chev 283 (to 
> become the famous 327).  The 260 was a later release of the 221 which 
> was released in 1962.  The 289 was also a successor to the 221.  Same  
> 90 degree block design, just larger bore.  The stroke remained the same. 
> 
> As for the goat, I had a 1964 GTO with three twos.  Do I wish I still 
> owned that beast.  They made it run faster than the devil, but forgot to 
> install brakes big enough to stop it.  One panic stop and you'd better 
> forget about stopping again until the brakes cooled down.
> 
> Jim.
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Didn't they call that configuration (3 2bbl) the six pack? And then
Chrysler came out with their hemi and a similar carb config, called the
Blue Print, if memory serves me correctly.....