At our little local annual car show here a few weeks ago, there was a Studebaker sedan, a 63, with the factory blower setup. It was sweeeeet! Even had a autographed picture of Andy Granatelli, who had something to do with the development IIRC... Kelly On 9/26/07, Clarence Milstead <cmilstead@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Talking about Studebakers, my Grandparents bought a 1947 Studebaker Land > Cruiser new, it was the only car they could get that soon after the War. > It > had a flat head six with three on the tree and overdrive, really nice car. > They bought a couple of more Studebakers from the same dealer, one was a > 1952 Land Cruiser with the V-8 engine. It would really run, and I read an > article that said that engine was very similar to the Cadillac engine in > design. I believe Studebaker built four different V-8 engine sizes, 232, > 259, 289, and 304. They put the supercharger on the 304 in the Avanti. > Talk > about opportunity lost, remember the Raymond Lowey designed Starlite (?) > Coupe in the early 1950's? It was available with the six and small V-8 > engines. If the management had the vision to increase engine size to 289 > then it would have been the performance car of the day and they couldn't > have built enough of them. > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://www.amc-list.com/pipermail/amc-list/attachments/20070926/f1e62b0b/attachment.htm > _______________________________________________ > Amc-list mailing list > Amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.amc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/amc-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.amc-list.com/pipermail/amc-list/attachments/20070927/780dc9ea/attachment.htm _______________________________________________ Amc-list mailing list Amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.amc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/amc-list